How to create fixed size TextField in the Center of a BordLayout?

[Landzg]

Hi everyone,

I have being tried to create some fixed size TextFields in the Center of a BorderLayout but even I overloaded the setPreferredSize, setMaxiumSize and setMinimalSize of the TextField, their sizes are not fixed. I know I could put them into the NORTH as this will respect the preferred size, but that is not what I want because of other requirements. So I am throwing the code here for any help.

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class MyTextField extends JPanel {
public MyTextField() {
setLayout(new GridLayout(0, 1));

JTextField tf = new JTextField(5) {
public void setPreferredSize(Dimension d) {
super.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(20, 100));
}

public void setMaximumSize(Dimension d) {
setPreferredSize(d);
}

public void setMinimalSize(Dimension d) {
setPreferredSize(d);
}
};

add(tf);
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame f = new JFrame();
f.getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());

f.getContentPane().add(new MyTextField(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
f.pack();
f.setVisible(true);
}
}

Thank you very much!

Land

 

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[pipk]

Any component added to the CENTER region of the BorderLayout will expand to fill the whole space of the region. Sorry, as far as I am aware this always happens and it means you may have to consider another Layout manager OR just setting it to null and hardcoding in the JTextfield position on the the screen.

 

[jdk]

Hey try this........


import java.awt.*;

public class FrameEx2 extends Frame{

TextField textField1 = new TextField();

FrameEx2(){

setLayout(null);
setSize(500,400);
setVisible(true);
add(textField1);
textField1.setBounds(180,168,129,29);
}

public static void main(String args[]) {
new FrameEx2();
}
}