I'm a bit new on design when it comes to WindowBuilder plugin. My application only runs at full screen and I know how to set my screen to full when it runs but I would like to know how I can design it at full screen on the "Design" tab.
Anyone can help me out?
Interface image:
WindowBuilder puts setBounds(100, 100, 450, 300) in your constructor by default.....remove this and replace it with setExtendedState(JFrame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH); When you go back into design view, your window should be bigger to reflect that it is fullscreen.
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I'm newbie to Swing. I installed Window Builder in Eclipse to draw an interface but I got this problem. JFrame hides a part in design tab.
Here is image.
How can I fix this?
I'm using Netbeans guibuilder and its working fine, however when I use the design preview button it changes the color of my logo for seemingly no reason. Anyone know how to fix this? I would post a screenshot, but I don't have enough rep to do so.
Put your label inside a JPanel and set the background property of the JPanel to the color you want. An easy way to put a label into a JPanel is to select it, right-click and use the pop-up menu Enclose In -> Swing Containers -> Panel. Right-click on the JPanel for the pop-up properties or just select it and find properties on under the pallet on the right. The background colors for labels can change depending on the look and feel which can explain why it looks different in the preview than when you run or in the designer. You can also right-click the frame for "Preview Design in" pop-up menu option to preview in different look and feels.
As to my experience in my Java Swing programming, I have only used absolute layout, in which I can position objects anywhere in frame using a Window Builder plugin for Eclipse. But the problem with that is, it's hard to maintain, and when the frame is re-sized the objects remain in their positions which is a not good.
Is there a layout manager in Swing that uses absolute positioning (I'm using Window Builder) but when the frame is resized, the objects inside the frame go with the flow?
you can try this site, I have been using it for some time and I am very please,
http://www.miglayout.com/
I want to make my application header repeated image like similar to ccleaner application header , below. I want to also put logo right top corner but when I maximizing the window , it stays in the middle. I am currently using netbeans.
Similar to ;
CSS Background Repeat ,
Okay, well do you have an attempt within your netbeans project? Something visual like a screen shot of your running application that we can work with.
If you have set your panel to the size of the JFrame then you have two options.
1. Lock the JFrame from resizing at all: Prevent Window resizing on Java (Netbeans)
2. Make the application scale/resize with the JFrame: JFrame Resizing in Desktop Application - NetBeans
Let me know if those help.
A lot of Netbeans (in terms of sizing/responsiveness) is about setting the Frame/Panel/ect... attributes so that they are all the same (locked or re-size'able)
I have a swing gui which has proper JPanel and JDialog size on windows platform with screen size from 13inch to 15inch. What I refer as proper size is that all the components in JPanel and messages at JDialog are properly shown.
However, when running under Ubuntu linux with Genome/Kde desktop, I find the not all components or messages are fully shown and it appears that either width or height is not enough and the GUI interface is cropped
Anybody has ideas of how to fix it?
To have consistent UIs in multiple platforms you have to use LayoutManagers.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/visual.html
There are several graphical editors that support creating swing user interfaces using LayoutMaganers. One example is WindowBuilder for Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/windowbuilder/
Call Window.pack() for your JDialog before showing it to make the window just big enough to fit all the components in it. This requires that you are using layout managers.