Java Reference
In-Depth Information
Introducing the StringItem
The
StringItem
class provides a read-only control drawing a text value.
StringItem
instances may bear labels and be drawn as buttons or hyperlinks (see Figure 5-5). How a
StringItem
appears depends on three things: the
label
,
contents
, and
appearance
mode
flags. The
appearance
mode can be one of the values
StringItem.PLAIN
,
StringItem.
HYPERLINK
, or
StringItem.BUTTON
, yielding the results you would expect.
Figure 5-5.
StringItem instances of different appearances
You can change the label or contents of a
StringItem
instance at any time via the
setLabel
and
setText
methods. You can also change the font of a
StringItem
object
through a property that's available via the
setFont
and
getFont
methods.