Re: Scroll bar not showing up

From:
Ralf Seitner <ralf.seitner@gmx.de>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:54:27 +0200
Message-ID:
<e9ngcb$1lm$00$1@news.t-online.com>
fiziwig schrieb:

Andrew Thompson wrote:

fiziwig wrote:

Andrew Thompson wrote:

...

I took my scrollbar code from
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Swing-JFC/AquickdemonstrationofJScrollBarbothverticalandhorizontal.htm
which supposedly works.

...

...there are no mention of JLayeredPane's in that example.
In the end I changed your JLayeredPane for a JPanel and the
JScrollBar appeared.

Then I guess my question boils down to how do I make a scrollbar appear
in a JLayered Pane?


FWIW: I changed my JLayeredPane to a JPanel and the scroll bars did
show up, BUT the rest of the application is totally broken by that
change. :-(

--gary


Hi!
Perhaps that little example can help you. I think your problem is, that
you cannot show ANY components on the JLayeredPane, you even were not
able to show a JButton...
I can imagine, the problem is the LayoutManager. Perhaps JLayeredPane is
not compatible with all LayoutManagers. I don't know - sorry.
But in fact, it does work with FlowLayout. In my diploma-thesis I have
to use it with a null-Layout and that works fine, too.

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class JLayeredPaneTest extends JFrame {

    JLayeredPane layeredPane;

    public JLayeredPaneTest() {
        super("Example");
        setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        layeredPane = new JLayeredPane();
        layeredPane.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        JScrollBar vScrollBar = new JScrollBar(JScrollBar.VERTICAL);
        JButton button = new JButton("Button");
        layeredPane.add(vScrollBar);
        layeredPane.add(button);
        layeredPane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200,200));
        setContentPane(layeredPane);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        JLayeredPaneTest test = new JLayeredPaneTest();
        test.pack();
        test.setVisible(true);
    }
}

Hope that helps!
bye, Ralf

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