GUI layout question

[Guest_imported]

i have a interface which is seperated into different panels one of the particular panels has 3 buttons and a textArea. i am trying to have the button going vertical but when i try this the textArea goes below the buttons. i would like the display area to stay in the same position and my buttons to the side of them!!! how can i do this and is there and way i can make my buttons larger!!
any help would be great

 

[rsfoley]

Well the best advice I can give you would be that you may want to consider mastering the GridBagLayout. It is very powerfull, and flexable. Below are links to some tutorials you may want to check out:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/gridbag.html

http://www.fh-mannheim.de/~beier/OOP/jb_tutorials/gridbaglayout/intro.htm

Here is a tool that got be started on my way to GridBag Heaven:

http://faculty.washington.edu/suhas/Java/IntAssignments/GBLT/GBLT.zip

You will be far happier in the long run if you can master this Complex layout manager.

Good Luck...

Rodney

http://www.javathis.com

 

[pipk]

you could just use another panel for the buttons, to allow a vertical arrangement, and then add the new panel and the textfield to another panel with a horizontal arrangement.

 

[JProg]

Hey there,

I'm not sure what layout manager you are using but if you want a lot of control over the way components are orientated on your frame use setLayout(null);

Then use the toolkit to find the dimensions of your computers screen like so:

Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultTookit();
Dimension d = tk.getScreenSize();

Now that your computer program is storing the values for the screen you can use absolute positioning of components like so:

setSize(d.width/4,d.height/2);

You can define both location and dimensions of components using the above process and sometimes you will need to multiply by a fraction to get the degree of accuracy that you are looking for, e.g.: d.width*1/1345.

Hope this helps.