Two calls to JFrame.pack() required to get desired effect?

[dark_perfect]

Hi,

some sample code :

public class TestFrame extends JFrame {
	
	private JEditorPane editorPane;
	
	public TestFrame() {
		initialise();
	}
	
	private void initialise() {
		Container contentPane = this.getContentPane();
		
		editorPane = new JEditorPane();
		
		editorPane.setContentType("text/html");

		contentPane.add(editorPane);

		this.setVisible(true);
		this.setDefaultCloseOperation(HIDE_ON_CLOSE);
	}
	
	public void loadResourcePage(String resourcePage) {
		InputStream input = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(resourcePage);
		BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(input));
		StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
		String line, newLineStr;
		
		newLineStr = System.getProperty("line.separator");
		
		try {
			while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
				buffer.append(line);
				buffer.append(newLineStr);
			}
			
			reader.close();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		
		editorPane.setText(buffer.toString());
		this.pack();
	}

	public static void main (String[] args)
	{
		javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
			public void run() {
				TestFrame frame = new TestFrame ();
			        frame.loadResourcePage("page1.html");
			}
			
		});
}

When i run this code with about half a page of HTML in the page.html file, the JFrame, on calling pack(), resizes itself to fit horizontally around the JEditorPane with the loaded HTML. However, it doesn't seem to resize vertically. It only expands about 20 pixels downwards. Having said that, if I change :

		editorPane.setText(buffer.toString());
		this.pack();

to :

		editorPane.setText(buffer.toString());
		this.pack();
                this.pack();

then it works as I expected it to, wrapping around the JEditorPane which in turn is wrapped around my HTML. Can anyone explain why this is, and if this is normal behaviour?

Thanks,
Nick

[camickr]

I"ve used code like that before on a JTextArea, so I would say its normal behaviour. Not sure the exact reason why it behaves that way.