I am trying to create a layout with GridBagLayout but am having trouble getting the spaces in between the JButton controls to be equal. In the first row, there are 5 buttons that have no space in between. The second and third row should have 4 buttons which are smaller which spaces in between. The workaround I tried was to
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Is this the right way to prevent GridBagLayout cells from being resized relative to their contents? SSCCE Answer Interesting. I’ve never seen an approach like this before. Typically the GridBagLayout is used such that: Each component is allocated space based on its preferred size If extra space is available then space is allocated to to each component based on the
Can’t span and left align text field in GridBagLayout
I have this code: It creates: But I need the text field to always span 2 columns and everything to be left aligned: How do I do that? Answer Needs to be: Result: Edit As an aside. ‘Spanning two cells’ seems an entirely arbitrary way of sizing a text field. Better to specify a number of columns (roughly translates to
Java Swing `GridBagLayout` alignment issue
I’m trying to create a login form using Java Swing. But I want the layout to look tighter, but still responsive. The structure of my project This is the picture of the GUI, this is not what I want: The components in the form panel are not behaving as I would expect, I want the fields to be close to
GridBagLayout gridwidth doesn’t work as expected
I’m working with the java swing LayoutManager GridBagLayout, and ran into this problem. I want a layout like this ACC BB But get a layout like this ACC B A and B take up the same number of columns despite B having a gridwidth of 2 where A’s gridwidth is 1. I don’t think there can be a vanishingly small
adding JScrollBar to a JPanel with GridBagLayout
My whole purpose of this is to get something looking like this: I want my skills list to scroll similar to freezing the top row of your spreadsheet in excel. Here is the code for my top row. And here is the code for parsing the (commandString – reply of skills from server/DB) As you can see it adds it
How to lock aspect ratio of a gridLayout in Java?
Is there an easy way of locking the aspect ratio of a GridLayout component in Java Swing ? Or should this be done on the JPanel containing that layout ? Answer GridLayout effectively ignores a component’s preferred size, but you can control the aspect ratio of whatever is drawn in paintComponent(), as shown in this example. The rendered shape remains