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Jeff:

I believe most components don't exist "enough" to have this information
until they are initialized/displayed.

-Rich

Jeff Marendo wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having a problem and am asking for possible clarification.  I have a
> class within a project file in JBuilder3.  This class inherits from JPanel
> and it has some nested JPanels within it that contain basic components like
> JTextField, JLabel, JButton, etc.  The layout managers being applied to the
> JPanels are either BorderLayout or XYLayout.
> 
> I need to get the X and Y locations of various components (in relation to
> where they are in their appropriate container) when an object of my class
> first becomes instantiated.  I also need their sizes.  I've been trying to
> call JComponent functions getX( ), getY( ), getSize( ), and getLocation( )
> from within jbInit( ) to get the values for any particular component, but I
> keep getting return values of 0.  Is this b/c jbInit( ) hasn't finished
> executing or hasn't exited yet?
> 
> If I initialize a component using setBounds(...) in jbInit then I get
> non-zero values returned to me.  If I add an actionListener to a button and
> then call getX( ), etc. from within the function related to the
> actionPerformed event of that button, I get non-zero values returned to me.
> 
> So, the bottom line is I only get 0 values returned to me if I call the
> functions mentioned above straight from jbInit( ), and I'm wondering why
> that is.  If anyone knows why, please clue me in.  Thanks!
> 
> Jeff

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Rich Wilkman
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
JBuilder Team

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