Re: Dynamic component resizing

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From: Paul Furbacher [TeamB]
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 00:00

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Darko Krsul wrote:
> 
> What is the way to have size of a component dynamically change (i.e.
> size of a JTextField, depending on string length), but never go beyond
> some predefined size?
> 
> I expected ‘setPreferredSice’ to do the job, but that way size stays
> fixed.

Have you tried setting "maximumSize"?  As for allowing it to grow,
that is dependent on which layout manager is handling the layout.
If it's a GridBag, I think you have to set the X weighting to 1.0.

Paul Furbacher  (TeamB)

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