I have a JInternalframe in the Eclipse Visual Editor but it does not have a JContentPane.
When I drag a JLabel onto it I can't re-size it but when I put a JContentPane in the JInternalframe and make its layout NULL the label can be re-sized.
Can someone help me how to put re-sizable label in a JInternalframe without a JContent pane?
The size of the elements in Swing is very integrated to the type of layout your using. Null layout lets specify the sizes, but you should avoid it. Border Layout lets you specify preferred, minimum and maximum values for the width and height.
I recommend to find a layout that suits your needs and use it. Some of them will resize the JLabel to fit its contents, some others will let you specify the size you want.
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I'm making a simple JFrame with the GUI editor in netbeans with a background image set as an icon in a label as suggested by the netbeans site, with a label and a button centered. I was having a very hard time centering them without using the null layout and setting the pixels to center them. I have an 800X600 image as the background, and I don't want the window to be resizeable. So I unchecked resizeable in the properties, and on the code tab I have designer size set to 800, 600, generate size is checked, and the form size automatically sets to 816, 638. This then gives me a border around the right and bottom sides of a few pixels. If I change the Form Size to 800, 600, then the background image is cut off by a few pixels. One other thing that I set that may impact that is in the properties=>bounds set to 800, 600, 800, 600.
Any advice on how to get rid of the border without allowing the window to be resizeable as well as any on whether a different layout can help with centering would be greatly appreciated. I did find some information that Grid Bag layout would help, but I wasn't quite able to get it working correctly. I suppose that writing out the code instead of using the GUI editor may also be a better alternative, but I'm pretty new so any advice on that would be great as well.
Don't use null layout when you can center components quite easily if you use the correct layout or combination of layouts. For instance if you want a JLabel next to a JButton and have them centered in a JPanel, put the JLabel and JButton into their own JPanel first (make sure to have this JPanel's opaque property set to false) and then have the containing JPanel use GridBagLayout. If you add one component (the inner JPanel) without GridBagConstraints, the component is centered automatically, even if the containing JPanel is resized. It's almost idiot-proof, whereas null layout is a recipe for difficult hard to maintain code.
I'm making Minesweeper as a school project. It's close to completion, but the only problem now is setting JFrame's size. I just can't figure out a way to set frames to the size I want.
The program looks almost like a Swing version of the original Minesweeper on Windows XP.
The main frame's layout is flow layout. There's a top panel for the time, mines, and reset button. The top panel's using flow layout, and the bottom panel's using grid layout for the buttons.
I set the preferred size of the frame's content pane. Getting the width is easy (The numbers of fields in a row * my button size), but the problem is getting the height right. The frame always go down to the 2nd last row of the minefield.
I also tried pack() but it resizes it to the preferred size of the content pane, which isn't the right size to begin with. What can I do?
Don't have the JFrame (or better its contentPane) use FlowLayout since this won't give the JFrame the best size for its components. Instead why not have it use the default BorderLayout? Your mine cell's will probably have their getPreferredSize() method overridden and thus will direct the size of the enclosing containers. As always, call pack() on the JFrame after filling it with components and before calling setVisible(true) on it.
Set a preferred size for the buttons in the GridLayout and pack() the frame after adding them.
Don't try to manually set the size. You should let each component display at its preferred size and use the pack() method.
The main frame's layout is flow layout. There's a top panel for the time, mines, and reset button
I would use a BorderLayout. Create a top panel and add it to the NORTH.
Then create a panel for the grid and add it to the CENTER. If you have problems with the buttons in the grid resizing then try creating a JPanel as a wrapper panel. Add the buttons to this panel and then add this panel to the CENTER of the frame. The panel will retain its preferred size.
I have a JTabbedPane and a JTextArea, I want the Textareas/Panes to resize to fit the window when the window is resized. How do I do this? I'm also fuzzy on if it's the right text component to use.
Really Muddled.
EDIT: I was setting explicit size as a dumb dumb. I've got it all worked out. What I did is set the viewport of a JScrollPane as the JTextArea and remove all explicit sizing.
Thanks chaps!
You can use whatever components you like. All JComponents can resize with a resizing parent container. You simply need to choose the correct LayoutManager.
Depending on how you want everything set up, I assume you will want to add your JTabbedPane to your JFrame like so:
JTabbedPane jtp;
JFrame frame;
// JFrame's default layour is border layout.
frame.add(jtp, BorderLayout.CENTER);
This will cause the JTabbed pane to take up all of the space of the JFrame.
You will also need to set your JTabbedPane's layout manager to BorderLayout, and also any tab you add to the JTabbedPane will need to have a BorderLayout.
To set the layout of your components, do:
JComponent anyComponent;
anyComponent.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
Have a look at the Java LayoutManager tutorials for more information.
I should mention that the reason I suggest BorderLayout is because any component added to the CENTER of a BorderLayout will automatically take up any space not taken up by any of the borders. And, since you aren't adding anything to any of the other borders (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST) the component in the center will take up the entire space.
Every JComponent is resized automatically when the container it resides in, is resized.
It's not a matter of the right component but more a matter of which LayoutManager to use.
When adding a Component to a container, you can set the minimum size, default size and maximum size.
On resizing the container, the component will scale automatically until reaching the desired maximum size.
If you need code snippets, tell me and I will fire up my IDE later.
cheers
EDIT: jjnguy beat me to it.. nvm then :p
How would I go about making the length of the tabs automatically resize based on how much room is left in that row of tabs.
Picture:
As you can see the tab's width is based off the text in the tab.
If you need me to explain what I want better then just ask me because I don't know if I made it clear enough.
You can use a custom component and set it's preferred size. For example, in ButtonTabComponent of TabComponentsDemo:
label.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(...));
You have to choose an appropriate dimension based on other aspects of your layout, so it won't be automatic.
I want to define a size for the actual tabbed pan.
The size of the JTabbedPane is a function of the dimensions and LayoutManager of the Container to which it has been added. In the example cited, the default layout of the frame's content pane is BorderLayout, and add(pane) adds it to the center by default.
To accomplish your goal, I see two approaches:
Divide the current width of the enclosing Container among the existing tabs and repaint the tabbed pane, as shown in this example.
Develop your own implementation of TabbedPaneUI and interpret SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT accordingly.
I created a JFrame initialized with a BorderLayout and a JScrollPane as its CENTER element.
The scroll pane is set with VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS and HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER policies. The intent of my frame is to have a controlled width, while the height should grow/shrink as data is added/removed.
Inside my scroll pane, I added a simple JPanel (lets call it the content panel) which is initialized with a FlowLayout (and LEADING policy).
In order to test this, I simply populate my content panel with 20 JLabel("Item " + n) components where n is the loop counter.
I would expect to see my labels shown on a single row if the frame is large enough and the labels wrap to other lines when I shrink the width. But instead, there is only a single line displayed with no wrapping... ever.
Does anyone know why the flow layout does not wrap when a scroll pane is involved?
If I remove the scroll pane all together and put the content panel directly in the frame, the desired wrapping effect occurs, but if the frame height is shrunk smaller than the content panel height it just disappears.
The idea is that I want my labels to be wrapped when necessary but also always be visible if it means having to scroll up/down.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Thanks.
Wrap Layout gives an explanation and a solution.
If you work with the designer, you have to set the prefferedSize property to null (delete what is set) then set the preferred size by clicking the triple dots [...] button next to the prefferedsize property name and put your preferred value.
I encountered the same problem and it works for me.