The major problem is the complexities involved in trying to make determination about individual platforms with regards to things like fonts and how pixels may be rendered Even two systems, running the same OS can generate different output due to different hardware drivers and rendering pipelines. Much of the API has been abstracted in such … Read more
add Icon/ImageIcon directly to the JButton instead of paint() for AWT or paintComponent() for Swing JComponents Contructor JButton(Icon) knows Icon or ImageIcon from code import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; public class ButtonsIcon extends JFrame { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; private ImageIcon errorIcon = (ImageIcon) UIManager.getIcon(“OptionPane.errorIcon”); private Icon infoIcon = UIManager.getIcon(“OptionPane.informationIcon”); private Icon warnIcon … Read more
If you layer the layout managers correctly the screen will re-flow to different sizes for you, the idea is to use a single set of layout managers on ALL screen sizes. If you use null you will have to do each screen size yourself. Not only that but if the app can be windowed you … Read more
Nested/Combination Layout Example The Java Tutorial has comprehensive information on using layout managers. See the Laying Out Components Within a Container lesson for further details. One aspect of layouts that is not covered well by the tutorial is that of nested layouts, putting one layout inside another to get complex effects. The following code puts … Read more