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Robert:

Preferred anything (height, size, width, etc.) is just that.  It's what
the component would like.  It's up to the individual layout manager to
determine the actual size of a component in a container.

For example, the preferred size of a button is based upon it's text. 
Placing a button with "OK" as it's text into the center of a
BorderLayout demonstrates the regard for preferredSize BorderLayout
has.  FlowLayout, on the other hand, is happy to accomodate the
preferred setting of the button (but this, of course, makes it
impossible to increase the size of the button without increasing the
length of the text).

-Rich

Robert Lintonbon wrote:
> 
> I can not get 'setPreferredHeight(int)' to have any effect on a
> fieldControl -should it vary the field's height or is there another method
> to adjust the height?