Re: Javas GridBagLayout does not display an (extended) Canvas (AWT / Java 1.4)
On 2006-06-08, Christian <java@wispa.de> wrote:
Good evening!
I don't manage to make an AWT-Frame with a GridBagLayout display a
Canvas. This Canvas will be displayed as soon as I use an other than
the damned GridBagLayout. Unfortunately I have to use that
GridBagLayout but do not know how.
An other posting I found suggested to extend the Canvas and override
it's method getPreferredSize. I did so but still the (My)Canvas does
not appear within the GridBagLayout. Can anybody give me a helping
hint?
Regards
Christian
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class PaintCanves extends Frame {
public PaintCanves() {
GridBagLayout layout = new GridBagLayout();
this.setLayout(layout);
this.setSize(150, 200);
this.setLocation(100, 100);
this.setBackground(Color.gray);
GridBagConstraints constraints = new GridBagConstraints();
constraints.gridheight = GridBagConstraints.REMAINDER;
constraints.gridwidth = GridBagConstraints.REMAINDER;
constraints.anchor = GridBagConstraints.CENTER;
constraints.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
constraints.gridx = 0;
constraints.gridy = 0;
MyCanvas canvas = new MyCanvas();
canvas.setBackground(Color.black);
this.add(canvas, constraints);
}
class MyCanvas extends Canvas {
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
// canvas claims at least all the surrounding frame
return new Dimension(getWidth(), getHeight());
This is returning Dimension(0,0), the initial size of a Canvas component.
Have the function return a non-zero Dimension. GridBagLayout is
setting the size of the canvas to the preferred size of the canvas.
Although you use a fill constraint of GridBagConstraints.BOTH, because
the weightx and weighty constraints are still set to their initial value
of 0, GridBagLayout setting the canvas to its preferred size rather than
setting the size to fill the space available.
}
}
public static void main (String argv[]) {
PaintCanves maler = new PaintCanves();
maler.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter()
{
public void windowClosing (WindowEvent e) {
System.exit (0);
}
});
maler.setVisible (true);
}
}
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