Tab Stop

[James4612]

Hello,

I am a little confused in why the tab Horizontal tab escape sequence works in the command line but not in MessageDialog.

e.g.

System.out.println( "Name" + "\tAddress" );

outputs the following in the command line

Name Address

Whilst...

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "Name" + "\tAddress" );

displays the following in a message dialog

NameAddress

anyone know why this happens and or how i can get around this?

new line "\n" works in both cases so just wondering why tab doesn't.

[ArchAngel]

You just can't use tabs in JOptionPane messages. (It doesn't really make sense to use them there).

[James4612]

Ok thanks at least i know that now.