align Components - Java java.awt

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align Components

Demo Code

// Copyright (c) 1996 - 1999, 2003 by Yoshiki Shibata. All rights reserved.
//package com.java2s;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Point;

import java.awt.Toolkit;

public class Main {
    private static Dimension SCREEN_SIZE = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit()
            .getScreenSize();/* w w  w .  j  av a2 s .c  o m*/

    static public void alignComponents(Component child, Component parent) {
        Point location = parent.getLocation();
        Dimension parentSize = parent.getSize();
        Dimension childSize = child.getSize();

        if ((location.x - childSize.width) > 0) {
            location.x -= childSize.width;
            child.setLocation(location);
        } else if ((location.x + parentSize.width + childSize.width) < SCREEN_SIZE.width) {
            location.x += parentSize.width;
            child.setLocation(location);
        } else
            centerComponent(child, location, parentSize);
    }

    static public void centerComponent(Component child,
            Point parentLocation, Dimension parentSize) {
        Dimension childSize = child.getSize();

        if (childSize.width > parentSize.width)
            childSize.width = parentSize.width;
        if (childSize.height > parentSize.height)
            childSize.height = parentSize.height;
        child.setLocation(parentLocation.x + parentSize.width / 2
                - childSize.width / 2, parentLocation.y + parentSize.height
                / 2 - childSize.height / 2);
    }
}

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