getting a JSlider to expand

From:

thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:18:23 GMT

Message-ID:

<jNZdk.72234$Jx.23947@pd7urf1no>

red, green and blue are instance of LabelSliderText, which extends
JPanel. How can I get the three "rows", beans, to line up vertically?

I suppose I could pass in:

"red "
"green"
"blue "

so that the spacing matches up? It's "ok" to pass strings? Hmm, maybe
it would make more sense to pass a Color instance...but maybe that's
overkill.

Also, I can't figure out how to make the JSlider expand horizontally when
the JFrame is enlarged. The surrounding JPane, "green " for instance,
does seem to expand.

thufir@arrakis:~/bcit3621$
thufir@arrakis:~/bcit3621$ cat lab2/src/a00720398/util/ColorSelector.java
package a00720398.util;

public class ColorSelector extends javax.swing.JPanel {

    /** Creates new form ColorSelector */
    public ColorSelector() {
        initComponents();
    }

    /** This method is called from within the constructor to
     * initialize the form.
     * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is
     * always regenerated by the Form Editor.
     */
    private void initComponents() {//GEN-BEGIN:initComponents

        red = new a00720398.util.LabelSliderText();
        green = new a00720398.util.LabelSliderText();
        blue = new a00720398.util.LabelSliderText();

        setLayout(new javax.swing.BoxLayout(this,
javax.swing.BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));

        red.setLabelText("red"); //pass "red " so that it matches up?
        add(red);

        green.setLabelText("green");
        add(green);

        blue.setLabelText("blue");
        add(blue);
    }//GEN-END:initComponents


    // Variables declaration - do not modify//GEN-BEGIN:variables
    private a00720398.util.LabelSliderText blue;
    private a00720398.util.LabelSliderText green;
    private a00720398.util.LabelSliderText red;
    // End of variables declaration//GEN-END:variables

}
thufir@arrakis:~/bcit3621$

thanks,

Thufir