Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ?

From:
Olivier Scalbert <olivier.scalbert@algosyn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:01:23 +0100
Message-ID:
<4ec02213$0$5039$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>
On 11/13/2011 08:17 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:

They aligned as I'd expect:
- btnPanel is sized to contain the buttons and nothing else
  and is placed as you asked, on the east side of the content pane.
 
- The buttons have their centres aligned.

I don't understand what you mean by "not well aligned":

- If you want the buttons to appear as other than a close-packed block,
  take a look at "How to use BoxLayout" in the Java tutorial. It is also
  referenced from the the class description in the BoxLayout javadocs
  entry.

- If you want all buttons to be the same size, use a custom class in
  place of JButton:

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

class MyButton extends JButton
{

   public MyButton(String label)
{
      super(label);

      Dimension d = new Dimension(120, 30);
      setMinimumSize(d);
      setMaximumSize(d);
      setPreferredSize(d);
   }
}


Hi,

With "my version", I have (at least on my machine):
-----------------
| button 1 |
-----------------
| button 2 |
-----------------
| Long Button 3 |
-----------------
| button 4 |
-----------------
| button 5 |
-----------------

With "yours" (at least the one I post with the BoxLayout):

------------
| button 1 |
------------
| button 2 |
-----------------
| Long Button 3 |
-----------------
| button 4 |
------------
| button 5 |
------------

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