Newbie question about layouts

[irona20]

Hi!

I want to do my application like I show in attachment (I did it with setBounds), but I want layouts.

If I use:
getContentPane().setLayout (new GridLayout (3,2, 10, 5));

The result are texfield, buttons, etc too big.
Any ideas?

[abramia]

Hi Irona,
I didn't look at your attached file -- but I assume you are trying to create a GUI using swing.

"GridLayout" makes each component in each cell (of the grid) the same size. What I usually do is first add my "JButton" to a "JPanel" (since the default layout manager for "JPanel" is "FlowLayout" -- which uses the "JButton"'s preferred size), and then add the "JPanel" to the 'content pane'. Example:

JButton button = new JButton();
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.add(button);
getContentPane.add(panel);

There is an "Effective Layout Management" short course available from here:

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/GUI/AWTLayoutMgr/

Hope this helps you.

Good Luck,
Avi.

[irona20]

Originally posted by abramia
Hi Irona,
I didn't look at your attached file -- but I assume you are trying to create a GUI using swing.

"GridLayout" makes each component in each cell (of the grid) the same size. What I usually do is first add my "JButton" to a "JPanel" (since the default layout manager for "JPanel" is "FlowLayout" -- which uses the "JButton"'s preferred size), and then add the "JPanel" to the 'content pane'. Example:

JButton button = new JButton();
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.add(button);
getContentPane.add(panel);

There is an "Effective Layout Management" short course available from here:

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/GUI/AWTLayoutMgr/

Hope this helps you.

Good Luck,
Avi.

Yes, it helps me... thank you very much for your hint and for the link :)