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1. How can I best lay out these components in Swing?    stackoverflow.com

What would be the best approach / LayoutManager for a JPanel that needed to display the components shown in the image? (Note that the fields should resize horizontally when the size of ...

2. Swing: What is a good way to implement fully-scalable components?    stackoverflow.com

I am creating an application which has a scrollable and scalable (zoomable) view. Inside this view I want to place other components (most of them customized JPanels and JInternalFrames). Things such as ...

3. JPanel's child components paint/layout problem    stackoverflow.com

I'm having a problem that when my frame is shown (after a login dialog) the buttons are not on correct position, then in some miliseconds they go to the right position ...

4. Laying ot components in Java Swing    stackoverflow.com

Oh hay there, didn't see you. I was wondering if there is a better, more efficient way of formatting the labels, panels, and buttons in java then what I have done ...

5. Need help positioning Java GUI Components for Lab    stackoverflow.com

I'm currently enrolled in a Client/Server Programming class (i.e. Java 2) in college. For our first lab assignment, we're being asked to create a simple GUI to emulate a basic instant ...

6. Java Swing: component that resizes itself but doesn't influence the layout    stackoverflow.com

I'll try to explain my problem as simply as possible but it's a tricky topic and people who haven't encountered the issue probably won't know what I'm talking about. I want to ...

7. Swing Layout: Prevent my components from moving around    stackoverflow.com

I'm coming from a Opengl project and I need to be able to place elements on my screen and that they stay there. I'm creating an applet that is the same size ...

8. GridBagLayout not placing components at page start    stackoverflow.com


I am using grid bag layout for my java application, but the problem is, it is not placing the components in the page start.... here is the code i am using


import ...

9. Java - Is it possible to have two components on the same side with GridLayout?    stackoverflow.com

enter image description here Is it possible to have the "Save note" button under the "Create note" button using GridLayout? If not, what layout should I be using? dataPanel contains ...





10. Java Swing and Component Positioning    stackoverflow.com

I am creating a base class for the JFrames of my application. I would like to inject a JXSearchField in the top right and corner of all frames that inherit ...

11. Swing: Is there a simple way to make 1 component ignore the layout manager?    stackoverflow.com

I have a JPanel with one component that I want to place in an absolute sense, whereas the rest of the components are placed according to a layout manager. Is there a ...

12. Making a component take a only a specific fraction of space (like 2/3 or 9/10)    stackoverflow.com

Using layouts for me results in so much frustration that I end up using an absolute layout and then scaling the components manually. Let's say I have a TextArea, and I want ...

13. how to prevent form designer to generate a layout to JPanel components?    forums.netbeans.org

Hi there, I extended a JPanel to make my component, and in the constructor of my component I set a specific layout to manage the other components in it. When I ...

14. ajusting position of gui components    forums.netbeans.org

Hello I have a problem regarding adjusting the position of gui components in gui builder. Once I drag and drop a new item, sometimes the order of the previous components changes randomly. How can I overcome this problem so I can make the position of each component does not change when I insert a new component. Thanks

15. Setting components in GridBagLayout    coderanch.com

Hello. I wrote a simple JFrame that would display three components using the GridBagLayout. However, I have two problems: * Even though I have a setSize(300, 300), the Frame that appears is really small (like 10 x 10 px). I have to resize it manually to see the components * If I type anything in the TextAreas, they grow in size. ...

16. GridBagLayout... Components always centered vertically?    coderanch.com

I have a panel, in it a few components. I've gotten the components inside the panel to line up just how I want them. But when I add the panel to the frame at location 0,0 (Should be Top Left) its still centered vertically on the frame. Why is this? I just want my components to start out in the top ...





17. GridBagLayout components are centered    coderanch.com

Hi all. I should begin by letting you know that i am fairly new to swing, so please forgive my lack of knowledge. Here's my problem. Im trying to create a GUI with multiple panels. I've created a root panel or contentPanel for all other panel to be placed onto. At the top of this panel, occupying 1/3 of the screen ...

19. A challenge in components layout    coderanch.com

A combination of BorderLayout and no explicitly defined preferred size usually gives the desired results. That's correct maneesh & thanks for that. In my case I'm a painting a rectangle bar along a line(using g.drawLine) inside the panel, whose size should also change when I do mouse drag or mouse click, which is not happening now(which was not happening earlier also ...

20. Component number inside GridLayout.    coderanch.com

21. How to set component position in GridBagLayout JPanel ?    coderanch.com

GridBag is a nightmare's nightmare. I agree it is good to learn the layout managers to make you a better programmer. Just know that GridBag produces a nasty mess of code. Constraints upon constraints. The layout really encourages object bloat. Panels within panels. Mig is really a breath of fresh air. I just rewrote all my gridbag code in mig. There's ...

22. Problem with GridBagLayout Manager while adding any component    coderanch.com

import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; public class GridPaneChecker extends JFrame{ public GridPaneChecker() { // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub setSize(400,500); setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE); JPanel pane = new JPanel(); pane.setLayout(new GridBagLayout()); add(pane); /*pane.add(new JLabel("ABHISHEK"),new GridBagConstraints(0, 0, 0, 1, 0.0, 0.0, java.awt.GridBagConstraints.EAST, java.awt.GridBagConstraints.RELATIVE, new Insets(2, 2, 2, 2), 0, 0));*/ pane.add(new JLabel("NUUUUUUUUU")); } /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO Auto-generated ...

24. question about positioning a component (GUI)    coderanch.com

Hi, I know this is not the GUI forum but i believe this question fits better in the beginning forum(I think;) ) I have created a GUI that moves it's position when one of the buttons is pushed ("R" right ,"L" left, "U"up ,and "D" down). My first try was written like this currentPositionH = getX(); currentPositionW = getY(); public class ...

25. Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: illegal component position    coderanch.com

Hello : ) I am in the process of writing a GUI and keep running into an error that I can't seem to get rid of. I still have to add various listeners to make it work, but right now I'm simply trying to make the GUI show up and look the way I want it to. The error I keep ...

26. Adding a custom component to a layout?    coderanch.com

When drawing I am using the getButtonShape() method which returns the Polygon that is supposed to be the Shape of the button. I am guessing that my Graphics is automatically drawing the Polygon at the x- and y-coordinates that I have in the Polygon, do you think there is a way to make the coordinates change according to the Layout so ...

27. Component layout (Revised)    coderanch.com

28. Positioning components    coderanch.com

Hi all. I've read a couple of beginner books on Java - but I'm still a novice. After writing several programs contained in the books, I decided to tackle converting a very simple VB6 program into a Java applet that I can embed in a web page on my server. The VB6 program is something I wrote for a buddy several ...

29. Layout problem / add components from another class    java-forums.org

In a class Window extends JFrame i have a public static JPanel southPanel with a FlowLayout. If i add a JLabel label1 to the southPanel from the Window class, it will be positioned right in the middle of the Jpanel according to the FlowLayout. But if i add a JLabel label2 from another class (Window.southPanel.add(label2)), then it will be positionned at ...

30. Help needed in layout of components    java-forums.org

import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.awt.*; public class FirstSwing implements ActionListener { JButton button; public void go() { JFrame frame=new JFrame(); frame.setTitle("IWCn"); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit (); Dimension size = toolkit.getScreenSize(); frame.setSize(size.width, size.height-28); frame.setLocation(0,0); Icon icon = new ImageIcon("C:/Users/Shilpa/Desktop/iwcn.png"); JLabel iwcn= new JLabel(icon); frame.getContentPane().add(iwcn,BorderLayout.NORTH); JPanel panel=new JPanel(); panel.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.CENTER)); frame.getContentPane().add(panel); JLabel userName=new JLabel("Username : "); panel.add(userName); JTextField field = new ...

31. Package layout problems trying to make a new Swing component.    java-forums.org

The basic background info: I copied the JSlider code from the OpenJDK repo (note that I am running the Sun packages, because this is a windows machine), and created a new component, and UI L&F class for it, by renaming the JSlider code and making some tweaks. I set its package to javax.swing, and the L&F classes to be in the ...

32. Prevent re-arrangement of component's position if some are invisible.    java-forums.org

Hello, When making a dice game, I used a JPanel on which I placed 7 disabled radio buttons. Like this: +--------------+ |_O___________O| |______________| |_O____O______O| |______________| |_O___________O| +--------------+ (I'm not sure how to display it with a courrier new font in this message). My plan was for example if I roll a 1, I hide all radio buttons except the center one. ...

33. Complex Multilayer Component Layout    java-forums.org

the JScrollerPane is in javax.swing.* I don't think I explained it very well. I really need to resize the JScrollPane when the entire window (client?) is resized. This should take care of the problem I mentioned. Do I need to loop down through the controlls on each component to do this? Are there any examples of traversing a lot of component ...

34. Components Layout in a JPanel    java-forums.org

Hi, Could someone tell me how to assign a specfic layout to each component in a Panel? For example, if I want to display something as follows using Box class: .....Name...... [..............] [ ...... ] age [ ...... ] ID Where the brackets are the textfields and dots are spaces. Which methods are out there to change to this layout? Can ...

35. Layout components in a JPanel    forums.oracle.com

Hello, I'm trying to fix 6 small JPanels into a bigger JPanel. I'd like to order the smaller ones from the bottom to the top inside the bigger one (vertical position) Is it possible? Laying out the bigger JPanel with a BoxLayout i can do this but from the top to the bottom, i'd like to do it from the bottom ...

36. Equal-sized components on GridLayout    forums.oracle.com

You probably don't want to work with the GridLayout, then. That's the idea of a grid layout. Other choices you mgiht want to look into that give you more flexibility: GridBag (moderately difficult to learn and use, but very powerful) SpringLayout (very difficult to learn and use, but able to do almost anything). - Adam

37. swing components positioning    forums.oracle.com

38. Swing Components Layout    forums.oracle.com

Ok, basically what I want to do is have a few buttons on the bottom of a jframe, and a blank jpanel up top for graphics2d to work on. What I have been doing is using a borderlayout, including the jpanel in the NORTH attribute, and another jpanel containing the buttons in the SOUTH. Problem is no blank jpanel is showing ...

39. adding components to a gridlayout out of oder?    forums.oracle.com

I am currently making a simple black jack game using simple GUI components discussed in my computer science class. Each player in the game has their on JPanel, with a gridLayout of 3, 1. The top cell is just a JLabel containing their name. the middle cell is a new JPanel that will contain their card images. And the last cell ...

40. positioning of GUI components    forums.oracle.com

a question for the java veterans out there, i am a student of programming and i wish to learn how to place/position GUI components in java by hard coding it. Is there any trick/technique that this could be done easily? I don't want to rely on netbeans's GUI maker to make my programs's GUI for the rest of my life. any ...