Serializable
The ComponentOrientation class encapsulates the language-sensitive orientation that is to be used to order the elements of a component or of text. It is used to reflect the differences in this ordering between Western alphabets, Middle Eastern (such as Hebrew), and Far Eastern (such as Japanese).
Fundamentally, this governs items (such as characters) which are laid out in lines, with the lines then laid out in a block. This also applies to items in a widget: for example, in a check box where the box is positioned relative to the text.
There are four different orientations used in modern languages as in the following table.
LT RT TL TR A B C C B A A D G G D A D E F F E D B E H H E B G H I I H G C F I I F C
(In the header, the two-letter abbreviation represents the item direction in the first letter, and the line direction in the second. For example, LT means "items left-to-right, lines top-to-bottom", TL means "items top-to-bottom, lines left-to-right", and so on.)
The orientations are:
Components whose view and controller code depends on orientation should use the
isLeftToRight()
and
isHorizontal()
methods to determine their behavior. They should not include switch-like code that keys off of the constants, such as:
if (orientation == LEFT_TO_RIGHT) { ... } else if (orientation == RIGHT_TO_LEFT) { ... } else { // Oops }
This is unsafe, since more constants may be added in the future and since it is not guaranteed that orientation objects will be unique.
Fields
Items run left to right and lines flow top to bottom Examples: English, French.
Items run right to left and lines flow top to bottom Examples: Arabic, Hebrew.
Indicates that a component's orientation has not been set.
Returns the orientation that is appropriate for the given locale.
boolean
boolean
HorizontalLines: Do items run left-to-right?
Methods declared in class java.lang.Objectclone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
Items run left to right and lines flow top to bottom Examples: English, French.
Items run right to left and lines flow top to bottom Examples: Arabic, Hebrew.
Indicates that a component's orientation has not been set. To preserve the behavior of existing applications, isLeftToRight will return true for this value.
public boolean isHorizontal()
Are lines horizontal? This will return true for horizontal, left-to-right writing systems such as Roman.
true
if this orientation has horizontal lines
public boolean isLeftToRight()
HorizontalLines: Do items run left-to-right?
Vertical Lines: Do lines run left-to-right?
This will return true for horizontal, left-to-right writing systems such as Roman.
true
if this orientation is left-to-right
Returns the orientation that is appropriate for the given locale.
locale
- the specified locale
Returns the orientation appropriate for the given ResourceBundle's localization. Three approaches are tried, in the following order:
bdl
- the bundle to use
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