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I have JB201 with javax patch installed.
I am targeting JDK1.2 and using only JDK1.2, dbSwingX, and DataExpress
components

I have a JFrame (border layout) with a JMenuBar, a JdbNavToolBar
(north),  a JScrollPane (center) containing a JdbTable, and a DataModule
containing a QueryDataSet which accesses a single Oracle database.

The frame functions ok but I am having manipulating the JdbNavToolBar in
the designer and  inconsistencies in how the toolbar looks in the
designer and at runtime.

1) The JdbNavToolBar is a reasonable size in the designer but displays
MUCH larger at runtime. If the frame is sized such that the entire
toolbar is visible and it's words readable, the frame takes up 3/4 of a
1280x1024 display and is so large it leaves the grid looking lost. The
grid appears and similar and reasonable size in both the designer and at
runtime. The actual contents of each button (text, icon) don't appear
much bigger but there's whole button takes up a lot more room.

2) After reading in the Loy and Wood "JFC Swing" book, I noticed the
default JdbNavToolBar layout was set to GridLayout (as opposed to the
BoxLayout). I tried setting the JdbNavToolBar's layout property to the
BoxLayout2 choice but nothing happens (that is, no changes are made in
the source at all). Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? I then
added the following line to jbInit() which set the layout to the
BoxLayout.

  jdbNavToolBar1.setLayout(new BoxLayout(jdbNavToolBar1,
BoxLayout.X_AXIS));

This changes the layout in the designer to be even narrower and more
compact. At runtime the layout is narrower, but not much, and is still
much larger than in the designer.

I believe this is caused, in part, by differences (default behavior,
etc.) between the Swing used in designer and the Swing used in JDK1.2
but I can't seem to figure out just what they are.

My specific questions are then:

A) Can I get the JdbNavToolBar to look, at runtime, more or less as it
does in the designer?

B) How can I adjust the JdbNavToolBar to be smaller and more compact (at
runtime)?

C) Is there a way to have JdbNavToolBar display only icons, only words,
or both (as in JBCL GridControl)?

Thanks

Randall J.Parr
Temporal Arts