How to automatically resize an AWT component after changing it's contents?

Question

I have an AWT Label inside a Panel with FlowLayout. I want to dynamically change the Labels text and resize it to the required width.

I have only found answers to the Swing version of this problem (setPrototypeDisplayValue()), but I have to stick with AWT since this is a homework.

Answer 1

You should be able to call invalidate(), which will then tell the parent container (your Panel) to redraw itself.

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/Container.html#invalidate()