Expanded view of frame

Hi,


I have to make a dynamic expandable Frame. Means by default only one portion of

the Frame has to be visible and depending on the action in that portion the rest

part of the frame should be visible. e.g. after clicking one button on the

visible frame.


Can somebody help me regarding this.


Thanks


..praks

Hi praks,


I have 2 suggestions for ur problems:


1. Disable all components that u wish to hide and then say on click of a button

make them visible(setVisible(true)).This might be tedious if u have more number

of components in ur container.


2.Divide ur froam into suitable panels and only enable a single panel when the

the window opens up.Later,the panels could be enabled based on soem events


if u have better solutions,pl let me know


bset wishes

thiru

I just did exactly the same thing yesterday! Here's how it works for me:


- instantiate and load all the components in a frame

- the ones that shouldn't be displayed initially must be set like this:


component.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(0, 0));

component.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(0, 0));

component.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(0, 0));


- when the button is clicked (or, on any other suitable event), do this:


private void showEverythingAndResize(){

component.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(60, 25));

component.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(65, 25));

component.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(50, 25));

Rectangle r=f.getBounds();

r.setSize(r.width+1, r.height);

frame.setBounds(r);

}


Alex