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Fabian:

If you size something down so that either it's height or width is the
same as the preferred size you will get a -1 for that portion of the
constraint.  Why?  Because preferred size is the more proper java
mechanism.

Bug?  Difference of opinion there.  It's working the way it was
designed to work.

The -1 is in the constraint and tells XYLayout that when it comes time
to call doLayout() it needs to ask the component what it's preferred
size is.  I'm not sure what you mean with your comment on
getPreferredSize().  You don't ask the layout that question, you ask
the compoment itself.  The component knows it's preferred size and
then it's up to the layout manager to decide if it wants to honor it
or ignore it.

XYLayout, in general, is a great prototype layout.  For the real world
it is recommended that you switch to a proper layout at deployment
time.  You can probably find on of my "co-ordinate based layouts are
evil" rants somewhere in the newsgroups if you want more on that.

-Rich

Fabian Beutin wrote:
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> Components beeing resized in the form editor sometimes get a -1 as a
> constraints value.
> A Borland emloyee said that this means that the preferred size will get
> used. Fine. Good answer, but still a bug.
> Why should the preferred size get used, when the component is resized
> with the mouse by the user?! The user is giving _absolute_ values here.
> The XYLayout manager definetely shouldn't make a -1 from that.
> Also getPreferredSize() won't result in the same value the user resized
> the component to...
> 
> So, is this a known bug after all?
> 
> Regards,
>         Fabian.

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