Re: aligning components within boxes
Duane Evenson <duane@invalid.address> wrote in
news:pan.2008.07.02.17.26.09.646605@invalid.address:
I'm having trouble getting components to center align in a Box or JPanel
with BoxLayout. The problem component seems to be a JTextField. Here is
my
code:
// Text.java
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Test extends JFrame {
Test() {
Box box = Box.createVerticalBox();
box.setAlignmentX((float) 0.5);
box.add(new JLabel("Client"));
box.add(new JTextField(40));
box.add(new JButton("Send"));
Container cp = getContentPane();
cp.add(box);
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
pack();
setLocationRelativeTo(null);
setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
new Test();
}
});
}
}
I haven't tested your example so this may be all wrong, but...
I thought that
box.setAlignmentX((float) 0.5)
sets the desired alignment for box within its Container cp.
If you want to center the JLabel, JTextField, and JButton within box, you
need to use setAlignmentX(...) on each of them.
See "Getting to Know BoxLayout" at
http://blogs.sun.com/CoreJavaTechTips/entry/getting_to_know_boxlayout
and especially the class AlignX2, where each of the three JButton gets its
alignment set before being added to the Box.
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