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Article #893Re: Best way to auto-format buttons and such inside a JPanel.
From: John McGrath [TeamB]
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:52
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:52
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On 11/6/2004 at 11:48:24 PM, Innominate Innominate wrote:
> I'm trying to add a number of simple Swing elements to a JPanel
> that is using a GridLayout. When I add a JComboBox to the panel,
> the box is sized so as to entirely fill its portion of the grid.
> Is there a setting I can make so that the box's size can be
> determined, probably at runtime, in an appropriate way, given
> the font in use at the time?
A GridLayout always lays out each child component at the same size.
You could place a panel in the grid, and your component in the panel,
so that the panel's layout would determine the size and placement of
the component within the grid cell.
You might also want to look at other layouts, such as GridBagLayout.
It has the features that you are asking for.
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Regards,
John McGrath [TeamB]
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