I have been trying to learn Buttons but it refuses to resize. Button1 (code below) just takes up the whole screen. I have seen other posts who's problem was that they didn't use
setMaximumSize();
but I'm using it and it still isn't working! I didn't make a JPanel yet. Here is my JFrame:
import java.awt.Dimension;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class Frame extends JFrame {
private JButton button1;
private JButton button2;
public Frame()
{
button1 = new JButton("Hello button1");
button2 = new JButton("Hello button2");
button2.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(100,100));
button1.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(100,100));
add(button2);
add(button1);
}
}
My main class is plain and simple:
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class Panel extends JPanel{
public static void main(String args [])
{
Frame frame = new Frame();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setSize(500, 500);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
It's because the frame('s contentPane) has a BorderLayout by default. You add the buttons to BorderLayout.CENTER, so the layout manager ignores the minimum-, preferred- and maximumSize.
I just want them to come up small and side by side
For that you could use a simple FlowLayout. (And if you want them to be centered on the frame, a parent JPanel with a GridBagLayout)
If you want a custom width & height for the buttons, override their getPreferredSize method. Overriding this method is safer than calling setPreferredSize.
Example:
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class Example {
public Example() {
JButton button1 = new JButton("Hello button1");
JButton button2 = new JButton("Hello button2") {
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
int width = super.getPreferredSize().width;
return new Dimension(width, width);
}
};;
JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel();
buttonPanel.add(button1);
buttonPanel.add(button2);
JPanel contentPanel = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout());
contentPanel.add(buttonPanel);
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setContentPane(contentPanel);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setSize(400, 400);
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
new Example();
}
});
}
}
I added a flowlayout and changed setMaximumSize to setPreferredSize. That should fix your problem.
Here try this:
import java.awt.Dimension;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class Frame extends JFrame {
private JButton button1;
private JButton button2;
public Frame()
{
button1 = new JButton("Hello button1");
button2 = new JButton("Hello button2");
button2.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100,100));
button1.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100,100));
add(button2);
add(button1);
}
}
<----now the other class--->
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class Panel extends JPanel{
public static void main(String args [])
{
Frame frame = new Frame();
frame.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setSize(500, 500);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
Related
I wrote the following example-code to explain my problem:
Toolbar.java
import java.awt.Dimension;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JToolBar;
public class Toolbar extends JToolBar {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
public Toolbar() {
JButton button = new JButton();
button.setSize(new Dimension(50,50));
add(button);
}
}
MainProgram.java
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class MainProgram {
public static void main(String[] args) {
JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
mainPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
Toolbar toolbar = new Toolbar();
mainPanel.add(toolbar, BorderLayout.NORTH);
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setTitle("Example");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.getContentPane().add(mainPanel);
frame.setSize(200, 200);
frame.setResizable(false);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
The setSize() method does not work. The result, with or without setSize() is the same.
I also tried with setPreferredSize() and setMinimumSize(), but is the same, the problem persists. How can I solve?
You can create your own class that extends JButton and override getMaximumSize() and getMinimumSize() methods:
Here is the code:
public class MyButton extends JButton {
#Override
public Dimension getMaximumSize() {
return new Dimension(32,32);
}
#Override
public Dimension getMinimumSize() {
return new Dimension(32,32);
}
}
You can read more here: http://www.coderanch.com/t/344902/GUI/java/Setting-default-size-JToolBar-Buttons
setPrefferedSize(...) is the correct method when you use a layout manager. JPanel has a default layoutManager of FlowLayout so it should work, and locally it works with setPrefferedSize(...).
I have a frame which contains a vertical toolbar with a combobox and some buttons. The combobox takes up the maximum height it can in the toolbar. Why? And how to solve this? Is there a way to fix the size of the combobox?
The code:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JToolBar;
import javax.swing.border.BevelBorder;
public class Clipping extends JPanel {
public Clipping()
{
setLayout(new BorderLayout());
JToolBar toolbar = new JToolBar(JToolBar.VERTICAL);
CreateToolBarButtons(toolbar);
toolbar.setFloatable(false);
toolbar.setBorder(new BevelBorder(BevelBorder.RAISED));
add(toolbar, BorderLayout.WEST);
}
private static void CreateToolBarButtons(JToolBar toolbar)
{
String[] cboList = {"Line", "Polygon"};
JComboBox cboDraw = new JComboBox(cboList);
JButton btnClip = new JButton("Set clip area");
JButton btnClear = new JButton("Clear");
toolbar.add(cboDraw);
toolbar.addSeparator();
toolbar.add(btnClip);
toolbar.addSeparator();
toolbar.add(btnClear);
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
CreateFrame();
}
private static void CreateFrame()
{
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Clipping");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.add(new Clipping());
frame.setSize(500,500);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
JToolbar uses a BoxLayout and JComboBox has an issue with it. See this question for a solution. Rather than creating a subclass, try to just setMaximumSize on the combo box with the height that you like.
I am trying to create a Java GUI application that contains a label and button. When the button is clicked the background color of the first panel is changed. I've got the label and button but getting errors whenever I click the button. Also, I wanted the first panel to originally have a yellow background then switch to whatever color. Here's my code:
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
public class ChangeDemo extends JFrame implements ActionListener
{
public static final int WIDTH = 300;
public static final int HEIGHT= 200;
private JPanel biggerPanel;
public static void main(String[] args)
{
ChangeDemo gui = new ChangeDemo();
gui.setVisible(true);
}
public ChangeDemo()
{
super ("ChangeBackgroundDemo");
setSize(WIDTH,HEIGHT);
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
setLayout(new GridLayout(2,3));
JPanel biggerPanel = new JPanel();
biggerPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
biggerPanel.setBackground(Color.YELLOW);
JLabel namePanel = new JLabel("Click the button to change the background color");
biggerPanel.add(namePanel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
add(namePanel);
JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel();
buttonPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
buttonPanel.setBackground(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
JButton changeButton = new JButton("Change Color");
changeButton.addActionListener(this);
buttonPanel.add(changeButton);
add(buttonPanel);
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
String buttonString = e.getActionCommand();
if(buttonString.equals("Change Color"))
biggerPanel.setBackground(Color.RED);
else
System.out.println("Unexpected Error!");
}
}
I made a few changes to your code.
First, you must start a Swing application with a call to SwingUtilities.invokeLater.
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new ChangeDemo());
}
Second, you use Swing components. You only extend a Swing component when you want to override a method of the Swing component.
Third, I made a action listener specifically for your JButton. That way, you don't have to check for a particular JButton string. You can create as many action listeners as you need for your GUI.
JButton changeButton = new JButton("Change Color");
changeButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
isYellow = !isYellow;
if (isYellow) buttonPanel.setBackground(Color.YELLOW);
else buttonPanel.setBackground(Color.RED);
}
});
Finally, I changed the background color of the JButton panel.
Here's the entire ChangeDemo class.
package com.ggl.testing;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
public class ChangeDemo implements Runnable {
private boolean isYellow;
private JFrame frame;
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new ChangeDemo());
}
#Override
public void run() {
frame = new JFrame("Change Background Demo");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
mainPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(mainPanel, BoxLayout.PAGE_AXIS));
JPanel namePanel = new JPanel();
JLabel nameLabel = new JLabel(
"Click the button to change the background color");
nameLabel.setAlignmentX(JLabel.CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
namePanel.add(nameLabel);
mainPanel.add(namePanel);
final JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel();
buttonPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
buttonPanel.setBackground(Color.YELLOW);
isYellow = true;
JButton changeButton = new JButton("Change Color");
changeButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
isYellow = !isYellow;
if (isYellow) buttonPanel.setBackground(Color.YELLOW);
else buttonPanel.setBackground(Color.RED);
}
});
buttonPanel.add(changeButton);
mainPanel.add(buttonPanel);
frame.add(mainPanel);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationByPlatform(true);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
Here is working demo based on amendments to your code, haven't had time to tidy it up but hopefully you'll get the gist of it. Problem was you hand't added Panels to the borders (north, south etc.) in order to color them. Hopefully this helps.
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
public class ChangeDemo extends JFrame implements ActionListener
{
public static final int WIDTH = 300;
public static final int HEIGHT= 200;
private JPanel biggerPanel = new JPanel();
private JPanel namePanel = new JPanel();
public static void main(String[] args)
{
ChangeDemo gui = new ChangeDemo();
gui.setVisible(true);
}
public ChangeDemo()
{
super ("ChangeBackgroundDemo");
setSize(WIDTH,HEIGHT);
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
setLayout(new GridLayout(2,3));
//JPanel biggerPanel = new JPanel();
this.biggerPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
this.biggerPanel.setBackground(Color.YELLOW);
JLabel nameLabel = new JLabel("Click the button to change the background color");
namePanel.add(nameLabel);
namePanel.setBackground(Color.YELLOW);
//this.biggerPanel.add(namePanel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
add(namePanel);
JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel();
buttonPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
buttonPanel.setBackground(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
JButton changeButton = new JButton("Change Color");
changeButton.addActionListener(this);
changeButton.setActionCommand("Change Color");
buttonPanel.add(changeButton);
add(buttonPanel);
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
String buttonString = e.getActionCommand();
if(buttonString.equals("Change Color"))
this.namePanel.setBackground(Color.RED);
else
System.out.println("Unexpected Error!");
}
}
I'm currently writing an interface where a have a JFrame class and two JPanel classes. When the script is first executed, Panel A is shown. I have a JButton in Panel A which I would like, when clicked, to display Panel B instead of Panel A.
Is there any way I could do this?
Read tutorial for that.
You can use next() method of CardLayout for showing next card,
or you can use show(...); for showing specific card.
Simple example:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.CardLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args){
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
final JPanel panel = new JPanel(new CardLayout());
JLabel l1 = new JLabel("1");
JLabel l2 = new JLabel("2");
JLabel l3 = new JLabel("3");
panel.add(l1,"l1");
panel.add(l2,"l2");
panel.add(l3,"l3");
JButton btn = new JButton("next");
btn.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
CardLayout layout = (CardLayout) panel.getLayout();
layout.next(panel);
}
});
JButton btnSpec = new JButton("l3");
btnSpec.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
CardLayout layout = (CardLayout) panel.getLayout();
layout.show(panel, "l3");
}
});
frame.add(panel);
frame.add(btn,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
frame.add(btnSpec,BorderLayout.NORTH);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
I want to know how to change the content of a JFrame at runtime. Like adding a new JPanel and removing the old JPanel.
You can consider using CardLayout to change the active panel in a frame.
Changing JPanel at runtime here is the Code :
package stack;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class RemoveAndAddPanel implements ActionListener{
JFrame frame;
JPanel firstPanel;
JPanel secondPanel;
JPanel controlPanel;
JButton nextButton;
JPanel panelContainer;
JButton preButton;
JPanel contentPane;
public RemoveAndAddPanel() {
JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
frame = new JFrame();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
firstPanel = new JPanel();
firstPanel.add(new JLabel("FirstPanel"));
firstPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100,100));
secondPanel = new JPanel();
secondPanel.add(new JLabel("Second panel"));
secondPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100,100));
panelContainer = new JPanel();
contentPane = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
nextButton = new JButton("Next panel");
preButton = new JButton("PreButton");
controlPanel = new JPanel();
nextButton.addActionListener(this);
preButton.addActionListener(this);
preButton.setEnabled(false);
controlPanel.add(preButton);
controlPanel.add(nextButton);
panelContainer.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
panelContainer.add(firstPanel,BorderLayout.CENTER);
contentPane.add(controlPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
contentPane.add(panelContainer,BorderLayout.CENTER);
frame.setContentPane(contentPane);
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setSize(300,100);
}
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if(e.getSource() == nextButton) {
panelContainer.removeAll();
panelContainer.setSize(0,0);
panelContainer.setSize(secondPanel.getSize());
panelContainer.add(secondPanel,BorderLayout.CENTER);
panelContainer.revalidate();
nextButton.setEnabled(false);
preButton.setEnabled(true);
}
if (e.getSource() == preButton) {
panelContainer.removeAll();
panelContainer.setSize(0,0);
panelContainer.setSize(firstPanel.getSize());
panelContainer.add(firstPanel,BorderLayout.CENTER);
nextButton.setEnabled(true);
preButton.setEnabled(false);
}
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
new RemoveAndAddPanel();
}
}
JFrame.setContentPane()