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1. Preserving the size of a JButton in BorderLayout.CENTER    stackoverflow.com

Is there a way of preserving the natural size of a JButton in the center of a BorderLayout? Right now, it expands in all directions to fill it up, but I ...

2. Change button text without changing button size    stackoverflow.com

I'm using a borderLayout to arrange my components in a JFrame and a Box(BoxLayout.X_AXIS) to put buttons next to each other. But it creates two problems:

  1. I want the buttons to have ...

3. how to set size and bound of button which are added on JPanel?    stackoverflow.com

I have written a code in java using swing.So that i will have a JscrollPane added to JPanel n then I will add buttons of fixed size to JPanel in verticle ...

4. What is the correct way to set size of elements of GUI?    stackoverflow.com

I am using swing to create my GUI. J have a JFrame containing one main JPanel which, in its turn contain several JPanels which, in their turn, contain buttons. I would like ...

5. How can I set size of a button?    stackoverflow.com

I put my buttons in a JPane with GridLayout. Then I put JPanel into another JPanel with BoxLayout.Y_AXIS. I want buttons in the GridLayout to be square. I use tmp.setSize(30,30) and ...

6. Can I fix the width of JRadioButton?    stackoverflow.com

I have sever JPanels which have to be ordered vertically. For that I want to fix the width of the JPanels. Because if they are too short in comparison with the ...

7. Why setPreferredSize does not change the size of the button?    stackoverflow.com

Here is the code:

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class TestGrid {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Colored ...

8. Change size of ImageIcon in a JRadioButton    stackoverflow.com

I simply want to change the size (diameter) of the actual (default) ImageIcon of my JRadioButton. I've changed the size of the font displayed in the widget, so it really looks ...

9. Make a JButton exactly the same size of its Text    stackoverflow.com

Is it possible to make a JButton take exactly the size of its text? Since by default, a JButton will have a small amount of padding (both horizontal and vertical) around ...





10. setSize not influencing size of button    stackoverflow.com

I have a sample code :

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.BevelBorder;

public class AWT extends JFrame {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final ...

11. JButtons dont get the Correct Size and Location    stackoverflow.com

Hello I have a Problem with some Buttons I would like to create a simple GUI with JButtons but when I start the App the Buttons Positions and Size changes every ...

12. How do I set the font size of the text on a swing jButton to the maximum size who fits the jButton    stackoverflow.com

I've got a jPanel with a jButton, and the user can define the size of the jPanel when launching the application using parameters, the jButton sizes according to the jPanel. The ...

13. How do I adjust Button size in Keyboard application?     stackoverflow.com

I'm writing a java application for my class. It's a telephone keypad. I'm almost finished with it. I just have to get the numbers to show I just don't have a ...

14. how can i put a JButton on an image?    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to fix a JFrame where there will be a background image and on the image JButtons which will do some commands. I try to do it without ...

15. button size and position    stackoverflow.com

Hi I want to put my button at the South position! How can I do that? Here is my code:

import javax.swing.Icon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.io.*;
import ...

16. Dynamic window size and buttons    stackoverflow.com

I have a JPanel and i am creating JButtons dynamically on runtime. I want the JPanel size to be adjusted dynamically according to the number of JButtons added to it. What ...





17. Unable to size JButton    stackoverflow.com

I am attempting to add a button to my JFrame. I am unable to assign the JButton to a certain size. I have tried

mJButtonOne.setPreferredSize
mjButtonOne.setMinimum/maximum
mjBUttonOne.setSize
No matter what I try the button always ...

18. Can't get to know the size of a standard JButton    stackoverflow.com

In one window I added a JButton to a Panel within a BorderLayout. In other window, using the same fashion, I added a JButton to one of the "cells" of a ...

19. Change Panel size on button click    stackoverflow.com

I have the following code:

package in.res.num.tapb.ui;

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.CardLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

class MainClass extends JPanel {
    public MainClass() {
     ...

20. How can I set the size of JButton in an Applet?    stackoverflow.com

I have an applet and I want to add a jbutton. The problem is the button is too big, I already used the setSize() method but still it doesn't work. Perhaps ...

21. Make 2 JButtons Equal in size    stackoverflow.com

I have two JButtons with texts "Ok" and "Cancel". I am using GridBagLayout to align them in a JDialog. I have set the anchor to GridBagConstraints.CENTER. Due to the difference in ...

22. JButton minimizing a window(JFrame)    stackoverflow.com

Im trying to create my own Frame for my application. I have removed the standard Frame by using setUndecorated(true). I have a working exit button (not that difficult), but i want to ...

23. Always display text inside JButton no matter it's size    stackoverflow.com

In java, I want to set a JButton font size so that it will not display '...' (ellipsis). The text of the JButton will only ever be one character, but I ...

24. Setting size of JButton inside JPanel with BoxLayout doesn't work as expected    stackoverflow.com

Recently, I have started doing UI development in Java; I used to do UI development in WPF. Some things about Java way of doing things are confusing. What I am trying to ...

25. JToolBar buttons with different size images-NetBeans    stackoverflow.com

I'm having problem in my JToolBar. I'm using images of different size. Squashed GUI Tool bar is not looking good. How can I use different size images in ...

26. jframe size can be set to screensize but the buttons and other things in jframe dont get modified according to the screensize    forums.netbeans.org

i want to set the size of my jframe equal to the screensize of the monitor being used.I have thus used this: Toolkit kit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(); Dimension screenSize = kit.getScreenSize(); frame.setSize(screenSize); ...

27. Button Size in Mac Netscape    coderanch.com

28. JButton size mystery    coderanch.com

29. size of JButtons    coderanch.com

31. JButton size    coderanch.com

Here is a little test program. I found I needed all three setSize methods for the buttons to stay at their preferred size. import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.event.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; public class ButtonArrayTest extends JFrame { Box hbox = new Box (BoxLayout.X_AXIS); JPanel jp = new JPanel (new BorderLayout ()); JButton [] b = new JButton [8]; String buttonName = ...

32. BoxLayout - JButton size    coderanch.com

ah, but that's the beauty of it--you don't have to if you do it right. if the buttons are not being added dynamically, add the glue at the bottom using the grid.y +1 of the last component added, and make sure the weight.y of the glue component is at least 1.0 higher than the weight.y of all your other components. if ...

33. JButton with ImageIcon Size Problem    coderanch.com

import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.awt.geom.*; import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import java.io.*; import java.net.*; import javax.imageio.ImageIO; import javax.swing.*; public class ButtonSizing { public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame f = new JFrame(); f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); f.getContentPane().add(new ButtonTestPanel()); f.setSize(400,400); f.setLocation(200,200); f.setVisible(true); } } class ButtonTestPanel extends JPanel { BufferedImage image; public ButtonTestPanel() { loadImage(); GridBagLayout gridbag = new GridBagLayout(); GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc.insets ...

34. JButton, icons and size.    coderanch.com

Hi ! I have the follow problem.I have a button with a icon(gif) and no text, I set the icon with : button.setIcon(....).The icon size is 16,16 but my button is a little bit bigger that my icon. What I need a "small" button - with the same size with its icon. A solution is to use setPreferredSize method on my ...

35. How to set JButton Size    coderanch.com

36. button sizes    coderanch.com

37. size of button in gridlayout    coderanch.com

38. trying to center buttons with fixed sizes    coderanch.com

Hi, Is there any easy way to vertically center buttons in a panel? I am trying to display a column of buttons at a size of 60x60 pixels for each button. The code below does everything except the centering fine -- but of course if I add the buttons to the CENTER of the panel, they get stretched. I guess I ...

39. set size of button in toolbar    coderanch.com

40. actionlistener and restricting size of button    coderanch.com

i have few queries using swing? 1. can somebody tell me how do i restrict the size of the button that we create using swing? 2. how to place a particular button at a desired location? 3. how to check whether the user has typed 10 characters or 20 and so on? 4. how to create password window such that it ...

42. make image full size on button    coderanch.com

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43. button size and frame border    coderanch.com

I am a complete noob with java so bear with me, anyway I have created a simple calculator in the windows style(well that is the idea), I am trying to change the blank button in my code to the same size as the memory buttons down the left hand side but it just stretches. Also I am trying to create a ...

44. Sizing JButton    coderanch.com

The short answer is that you can try calling setPreferredSize, however some layout managers ignore this dimension. For example, BorderLayout tries to give the component you add to the north or south its preferred height but sets its width to fit; in the east and west this is reversed and the component is given its preferred width and sets its height ...

45. JButton -> Size    coderanch.com

46. Setting default size to JToolBar's Buttons    coderanch.com

Seems like I had to set the maximum and minimum size of the button as well. I ran into something else however. Instead of overriding the getPrefferedSize(). getMaximumSize() etc, I tried setting the prefferedSize, max size and min size of the button, which strangely produced different result. It seemed like the height of the buttons were bigger then they needed to ...

47. setting jbutton size    coderanch.com

48. Button Size    coderanch.com

49. JButton Sizes    coderanch.com

50. fit the image to the button size    coderanch.com

51. Consistent button size in FlowLayout panel    coderanch.com

Hi all. I have a JPanel that I have set to use FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT) (NB: I am coding this manually and not using the IDE so I cannot visually make the buttons the same) If I also have 3 buttons, initialised with labels such as "aa", "bbbb","ccccccc" then as I add each button to the panel, they will differ in size based ...

52. About "Button Size"    coderanch.com

import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.util.*; import java.awt.event.*; class Kniga implements ActionListener { JPanel panel; JButton pres; Kniga() { panel = new JPanel(new FlowLayout(5,150,150)); pres = new JButton(" PRES "); pres.setSize(100,100); pres.addActionListener(this); panel.add(pres); JFrame frame = new JFrame("FRAME"); frame.add(panel); frame.setSize(400,400); frame.setVisible(true); } public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { if(e.getSource()==pres) { } } public static void main(String args[]) { new Kniga(); } } ...

53. buttons that are not same size    coderanch.com

why is my button the first fit, best fit, worst fit is not same in sizes? import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; public class Demo { private static GetSet g = new GetSet(); public static void main(String args[]){ Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(); Dimension screenSize = tk.getScreenSize(); int screenHeight = screenSize.height; int screenWidth = screenSize.width; JFrame choice = new JFrame(); JPanel panel1 ...

54. JButton size changes    coderanch.com

Hello to all, I am developing an application in which I have used JToolBar with JButtons. I am using the images instead of text as in following code JToolBar toolbar=new JToolBar(); URL saveURLImg=getClass().getResource("Images/save.jpg"); ImageIcon saveIcon=new ImageIcon(saveURLImg); toolbar.add(tbarBtnSave=new JButton(saveIcon)); //tbarBtnSave.setSize(tbarBtnSave.getPreferredSize()); tbarBtnSave.setSize(new Dimension(20,20)); //tbarBtnSave.setEnabled(false); tbarBtnSave.setToolTipText("save history"); tbarBtnSave.setBackground(Color.white); tbarBtnSave.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() { public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent me) { if(tbarBtnSave.isEnabled()) { saveURLImg=getClass().getResource("Images/save_big.jpg"); saveIcon=new ImageIcon(saveURLImg); tbarBtnSave.setIcon(saveIcon); } } ...

55. Changing JButton positions relative to screen size    coderanch.com

Hi, I'm fairly new to the GUI stuff in java but I'm wondering how I can get positions of JButtons within a frame to change with the screen size so that they are always in the same place relative to the sizes. If you get what I mean, I'm finding it hard to explain. At the moment i've just got 2 ...

57. How do I control the size of a button (or any component) in an applet or Frame?    coderanch.com

I wrote a simple applet with a button and a text box inside of a frame. When I run it and resize it the button resizes with the window or applet section of html doc. How can I prevent the button from resizing? Here is my code so far. The maxsize method does not seem to work. import java.awt.*; public class ...

58. size of one button is less than expected in GridBagLayout    coderanch.com

I want to learn GridBagLayout so I create the following test program. Why the width and height of button1 is not 7 times of button2 and button3? import java.awt.GridBagConstraints; import java.awt.GridBagLayout; import java.awt.Insets; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JPanel; public class GridBagLayoutPane2Question extends JPanel { final static int X1 = 7, Y1 = 7; public GridBagLayoutPane2Question() { setLayout(new GridBagLayout()); // Create ...

60. Jbutton size    java-forums.org

hi friends. I am new to swings. I am using buttons in my panels. I want to resize the button according to my requirement. I used setPreferredSize() but this method only alters buttons width and not height.Can u help me overcome this hurdle.The question may be simple but still i need a precise solution pls

61. set button size in case of layout managers    java-forums.org

62. Change button size on click    java-forums.org

Hello, I am trying to create a pretty specific datepicker and am having some problems. I have create a JPanel which has several buttons arranged vertically representing specific months that I need in the MM format (ie. 10 - for October). What I want is when the user clicks the button, the button expands vertically down to show the MMMM format ...

63. Make all buttons the same size    java-forums.org

I want to make the button on the bottom of the screen the same size as the other buttons. In the code: Java Code: package com; import java.awt.event.*; import java.util.*; import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; public class Boggle extends JFrame { /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { Boggle bog = new Boggle(4); } protected JButton run = ...

64. how to fix the size of buttons?    java-forums.org

Your post doesn't give us enough useful information to allow us to give you a helpful answer. Please read the link in my signature below on "how to ask smart questions" as it will give several useful suggestions on what we need in order to be able to help you out. Much luck.

65. JButton Size    java-forums.org

Try with this method for location. setLocation public void setLocation(int x, int y)Moves this component to a new location. The top-left corner of the new location is specified by the x and y parameters in the coordinate space of this component's parent. Parameters: x - the x-coordinate of the new location's top-left corner in the parent's coordinate space y - the ...

66. JButton Size Help?    java-forums.org

I'm trying to set the size of a JButton on a JFrame You should note that this is not what usually happens in Swing. Containers have a layout manager and this layout manager figures out the size and position of the components in the container. The layout manager uses the components preferred (and min and max) sizes, and also it has ...

67. JButton Size    forums.oracle.com

i know everyone is going to say that use notepad. but why not use IDe like netbeans? no hesitation in resizing or adding fields. WOw i am so happy that there is an IDE like frontpage2003 in which we can create GUI components easily. but yes definitely you need to know how to code in java if you want to connect ...

68. set jbutton size. HELP!!!    forums.oracle.com

69. JButton Size ?    forums.oracle.com