How can I set the frame's size flexible to show it's title(variable length) in full?

[lmsook10]

Hello,

I have a frame that has a table in it.

This frame has a title, something like,

"Find results for test.html - 3 item(s)"
And in the table, it shows 3 results.

My problem is that I don't know how long the frame's title will be. Sometimes it will be short like "Find results for test.html - 3 item(s)"
and sometimes it will be long like, "Find results for asdfdfdfdfdfsdfdfdfdf.html - 3 item(s)"

Currently, what I do is

table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(new Dimension(500, 70));
table.setFillsViewportHeight(true);

It shows frame's title full in case of "Find results for test.html - 3 item(s)"
but it doesn't show frame's title full for "Find results for asdfdfdfdfdfsdfdfdfdf.html - 3 item(s)"

How can I set the frame's size flexible to show it's title in full?

Thanks,

[Norm]

Is the problem not knowing how wide in pixels the title is so that you can make the frame big enough to show ALL of the title?
I think the class FontMetrics has methods to get the width of a String.

[skaspersen]

You need to call a method after setting the title of the Frame. The one I supplied should work. However I think the user should decide if they want to resize the frame.

	private static void fitFrameTitle(JFrame frame) {		
		FontUIResource font = (FontUIResource) UIManager.get("InternalFrame.titleFont");
		if (font != null) {
			int prefferedWidth = frame.getWidth();
			int prefferedHeight = frame.getHeight();
			FontMetrics fm = frame.getFontMetrics(font);
			Rectangle2D bnds = fm.getStringBounds(frame.getTitle(), frame.getGraphics());
			prefferedWidth = (int) bnds.getWidth() + 50;//50 is space for the maximise and minimise buttons might need to increase this
			Dimension dimension = new Dimension(prefferedWidth, prefferedHeight);
			frame.setPreferredSize(dimension);
			frame.setMinimumSize(dimension);
			frame.pack();
		}		
	}

HTH
Stephen