Re: How to get the current X and Y position of a window?

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 15 May 2009 06:36:14 -0400
Message-ID:
<nospam-A76DB5.06361415052009@news.aioe.org>
In article <4a0d0a45$0$31343$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net>,
 marksiz@email.org (Mark Sizzler) wrote:

I can get the current height and width of a window by commands like:

this.getWidth() and this.getHeight()

But how do I get current X and Y position of this window?


Try SwingUtilities#convertPointToScreen():

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/SwingUtilities.html>

<code>
package news;

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.event.ComponentAdapter;
import java.awt.event.ComponentEvent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

/** @author John B. Matthews */
public class GridTest {

    private static final int ROWS = 5;
    private static final int COLS = 4;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            //@ Override
            public void run() {
                new GridTest().create();
            }
        });
    }

    void create() {
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        panel.setLayout(new GridLayout(ROWS, COLS));
        for (int i = 0; i < ROWS * COLS; i++) {
            panel.add(new LabelPanel());
        }
        JFrame f = new JFrame("GridTest");
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.add(panel);
        f.pack();
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    }
}

/**
 * A LabelPanel has a label showing its current size & location.
 */
class LabelPanel extends JPanel {

    private static final String FORE =
        "<html><body align=center><b>";
    private static final String AFT =
        "</b><br><i>ubi in mundum</i></body></html>";
    private final JLabel sizeLabel = new JLabel();
    private final Point p = new Point();

    public LabelPanel() {
        this.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(150, 75));
        this.add(sizeLabel);
        this.addComponentListener(new ComponentAdapter() {
            @Override
            public void componentResized(ComponentEvent e) {
                int w = e.getComponent().getWidth();
                int h = e.getComponent().getHeight();
                p.setLocation(0, 0);
                SwingUtilities.convertPointToScreen(p, sizeLabel);
                sizeLabel.setText(FORE
                    + "Size: " + w + "\u00d7" + h + "<br>"
                    + "Loc: " + p.x + "," + p.y
                    + AFT);
                    }
        });
    }
}
</code>

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John B. Matthews
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<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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