Re: Using panels

From:

"Brandon McCombs" <brandon.mccombs@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.gui

Date:

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:34:07 GMT

Message-ID:

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To: comp.lang.java.gui
Knute Johnson wrote:

Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:

On Fri, 04 May 2007 00:58:37 +0000, Andrew Thompson wrote:

Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
.

Unfortunately when I add a panel to the panel that sits in the split
pane
I don't see anything.

d
validate() or possibly repaint() might fix it, but..

I tried validate(). It doesn't help. Actually it might be in the
included source.

I've put together a small example that uses two classes that shows the
problem I'm having. I'll include the classes below.

They are not included, but ..*.

Actually they are. Right below the signature.

...These were put
together in NetBeans ..

"Don't blame us for your software" and..

NetBeans doesn't do anything strange with the classes. I checked.

..so they are a little bit more complex than necessary, but the added
complexity can be ignored for the most part.

Why the heck should we 'ignore' the unnecessary complexity? Why,
instead,
do you not *remove* it so we never have to suffer the bandwidth, or take
(any) efforts to 'ignore' it ourselves! * If you actually need to post
code, please do us the courtesy of posting the *smallest* code example
that shows the problem.

If you had looked at the classes you would have found them to be quite
small, but complete. I added the warning more out of courtesy than
out of
necessity.
You really should look at the code before spinning off on these kinds of
tangents. Now we have two complete messages devoted to a few lines of
extra code in the classes.

Threads involving Andrew often spiral into conversations such as the one
you just experienced. It is due to him complaining more about your
presentation than just ignoring the fact it wasn't perfect or wasn't the
way he would have done it and just helping w/o making such remarks. I
believe the number of useful sentences he produces are overshadowed by
how many non-useful sentences he produces. Wear a flak jacket so you are
always prepared for his responses.

I don't know what Andrew is using for a reader but in Thunderbird it is
almost impossible to read your code after the signature. That is a
TBird problem but...

Using TBird 2.0 on a 19" screen the code is perfectly readable for me.
Only 2 lines wrap (the setHorizontalGroup/setVerticalGroup lines within
his initComponent() method).

Your program is not as simple as it really needs to be but here is one
issue I've found.

He shall be hanged for this abomination, then disemboweled. That will
teach him.

        JPanel panel = new ChoreHeaderPanel();
        jPanel1.add(panel);
        jPanel1.validate();

You are adding panel to jPanel1 but not to it's layout. Also I know
that the IDEs love GroupLayout but it is a pain to read and understand.
Why is panel not added in initComponents()? I think part of your
problem is calling add() on jPanel1 and not addComponent() on its
layout. And since we are talking about IDEs does it add the variable
declarations at the end of the class file or is that author's choice?

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