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Sam:

XYLayout will never get you there -- that's the problem with co-ordinate
based layouts.  Things go where you stick them at the size you stick them
there.  I haven't seen a PercentOfContainer layout so you'll probably have
to invent one (or use GridBagLayout which is very, very powerful).

-Rich

Sam wrote:

> Hi all-
>
> I'm trying to allow a user to resize a GUI.  I'm trying to get it
> working on a test application first, which has a table within a scroll
> pane, on a panel in a frame.  When the frame is resized, I'd like the
> scroll pane to adjust its size based on a percentage of the size of the
> frame.
>
> I'm trying to use the XYLayout, but it seems that no matter what I do
> (e.g. set bounds, delete and re-add the component, set preferred sizes,
> etc) the sizes of the components always go back to their initial size.
> Sometimes you can see the scroll pane flash to the correct size for a
> moment, but then it resizes to the original XYConstraints.
>
> I was hoping not to use a different layout manager, if possible.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
> Thanks
> Sam
>
> BTW, I'm using JBuilder3.