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How can I properly center a JPanel ( FIXED SIZE ) inside a JFrame?

BoxLayout can pretty to hold your setXxxSize(), then just add panel.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(100, 100)); and your output would be Removed by setMinimumSize(notice if Container has greater size as … ) import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; public class CustomComponent12 extends JFrame { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; public CustomComponent12() { Box box = new Box(BoxLayout.Y_AXIS); box.setAlignmentX(JComponent.CENTER_ALIGNMENT); … Read more

How to align left or right inside GridBagLayout cell?

When using GridBagLayout for a tabular display of JLabel : JTextField, I like to have a method that makes my GridBagConstraints for me based on the x, y position. For example something like so: private GridBagConstraints createGbc(int x, int y) { GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc.gridx = x; gbc.gridy = y; gbc.gridwidth = 1; … Read more

Looking for general method for GridBagLayout component creation

I use GridBagLyout quite a lot, but like many others before me, I quickly found out it can be quite verbose. There are many examples on the web of how users wrote utility methods and/or classes to help them generate GBL code. I’ll show you what I do. 1) First, I created 2 enums that … Read more

Animations when using Gridbag Layout.

In order to perform any kind of animation of this nature, you’re going to need some kind of proxy layout manager. It needs to determine the current position of all the components, the position that the layout manager would like them to have and then move them into position. The following example demonstrates the basic … Read more

Why does this GridBagLayout not appear as planned?

I am afraid the desired layout is not so simple with simple GridBagLayout restriction. GBL does not respect proportions with gridwidth. It means it can’t detect 2/3 of component’s width. So if you define c1 (gridwidth=2) c2 (gridwidth=1) c3 (gridwidth=3) Expecting to get |****|**| |*******| The result will be |**|**| |*****| The camickr’s example works … Read more