Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ?

From:
Olivier Scalbert <olivier.scalbert@algosyn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:17:17 +0100
Message-ID:
<4ec025cd$0$5046$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>
On 11/13/2011 08:01 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class test extends JPanel {
    public test() {
        super(new GridBagLayout());

        GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();
        c.fill = GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL;
        c.gridy = 0;

        String labels[] = {"Button 1","Button 2",
         "Long Button 3","Button 4","Button 5"};

        for (int i=0; i<labels.length; i++) {
            add(new JButton(labels[i]),c);
            ++c.gridy;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                JFrame f = new JFrame();
                f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                f.add(new test(),BorderLayout.EAST);
                f.setSize(700,500);
                f.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}


Ok, all the buttons have the same size and are aligned ! When I resize
the main frame, the group of buttons is in the EAST part but in the
middle of the frame height. Is it possible the have this group on top
(of the EAST part) ?

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