Is there a possible Control for this?

Question

I'm currently using net beans with Java to work on a senior project. Essentially the program is going to create word search puzzles.

While I'm still a few weeks from needing a solution, I'm having difficulty thinking of a possible control that could display a word search puzzle (not to be mistaken for a crossword puzzle).

Answer 1

Might give you an idea

brainjar - Wordsearch (source at bottom of page)

What do you mean by control? Maybe something like a JTable + Custom ListSelectionModel

Answer 2

My initial thought would be to have a grid of subclassed JPanels stored in another subclass of JPanel [as a 2D array, or something].
You could then attach MouseListeners to the grid cell JPanels if you need to detect if they've been clicked on, or whatever