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If you included the actual code (stripping down to just
what you show below), it would be a lot easier for one
of us to pull it into a little test project and play
with it.  As it is, I don't have the time to translate
the table below into code, but if I had the code, it
would take a minute or two to see what is happening and
what the remedy might be.

I'm suspicious of the -3 and odd paddings -- I rarely
use any padding.  The extreme insets.right are also something
I would avoid.  My feeling on the latter is that in most
cases they should be in the range of 8 - 12 px at most, and
balanced.  Other methods for displacing far to the left or
right should be used instead.


Magnus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a "strange behavior" in 2 of my windows (JFrame) on WInXP running 
> JRE1.4.
> 
> Example - one panel have (GBL) Grid: 5 across and 4 down
> 
> Top row looks like:
> 
> RadioButton1 (RB1), RB2, label, JComboBox, empty
> 
>             Constraints
>             Grid      Ext   Insets  Padd    Weight  Anchor Fill
> components  X Y W H   T  L  B R     W    H  X Y
> ----------  - - - -   -- -- - ---   --- --  - -     ------ -----
> RB1         0 0 1 1   39 40 0 0     9   -3  0 0     Center None
> RB2         1 0 1 1   39 0  0 103   23  -3  0 0     C      N
> label       2 0 1 1   39 9  0 0     33   5  0 0     West   N
> JCB         3 0 1 1   39 9  0 134   154 -1  1 0     C      Horiz
> 
> (All values were created in JBuilder from XY-Layout)
> 
> The problem: If a value (visible or down the list not visible) in the 
> JCB is large (>17 char) the label that is for RB2 is cropped. Some 
> changes below in the panel does also happens but what I don't understand 
> is why only the RB2 label is affected and not anything else on that "row".
> 
> Note: There is plenty of space in the JCB to display the full string (up 
> to 50 char).
> 
> Tests:
> 1) If I remove the padding, the RB2 label is fine but the JCB doesn't 
> display the full string.
> 
> 2) Changing the JCB to
>    JCB         3 0 1 1   39 9  0 0      0 0  1 0      W   None
>    creates a window that size everything according to the strings in 
> JCB. Since the JCB is empty (populated from a DB) when in design mode it 
> becomes hard to see the final size and layout.
> 
> 3) I added a padding of W 120 and could now use a longer string but not 
> full length (50 char).
> 
> A constraint that I didn't play with is weightx but should not change 
> anything unless I resize the pane, right?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Magnus


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