So I've been looking at other solutions to this problem, but it seems that none of them help at all. Can someone help me?
Code:
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
// Container cont = frame.getContentPane();
JPanel buttonpanel = new JPanel();
JButton[] button = new JButton[12];
JTextArea score1, score2;
score1 = new JTextArea(100, 200);
score2 = new JTextArea(100, 200);
frame.setSize(800, 600);
frame.setVisible(true);
score1.setLayout(null);
score1.setBackground(Color.BLUE);
score2.setLayout(null);
score2.setBackground(Color.RED);
score1.setLocation(0, 100);
score2.setLocation(700, 100);
frame.add(score1);
for (int i = 0; i < button.length / 2; i++) {
button[i].setBounds(100 * (i + 1), 100, 100, 100);
button[i].setBackground(Color.GRAY);
buttonpanel.add(button[i]);
}
frame.add(buttonpanel);
frame.add(score2);
// frame.add(panel);
}
It just gives me window completely blue.
You're seeing all blue because you're adding score1, an all blue JTextArea to the JFrame's contentPane, a container that uses a BorderLayout, and this makes the JTextArea fill the contentPane, leaving nothing but blue. Nothing else is added because the NullPointerException that is caused by your using a JButton array that is filled with nulls. Once you fix this bug (which you never told us about), you'll see nothing but red because of the same issue.
The best solution, which you've undoubtedly read about is to use layout managers to the best advantage to create your GUI. While null layouts and setBounds() might seem to Swing newbies like the easiest and best way to create complex GUI's, the more Swing GUI'S you create the more serious difficulties you will run into when using them. They won't resize your components when the GUI resizes, they are a royal witch to enhance or maintain, they fail completely when placed in scrollpanes, they look gawd-awful when viewed on all platforms or screen resolutions that are different from the original one.
Other problems:
You're calling setVisible(true) on your JFrame before adding anything to it which is backwards. You want to make this call after everything has been added, so that it will show in the JFrame when it is displayed.
You're setting the layout of a JTextArea which doesn't make sense since you'll never want to use these as containers for other components.
Also understand that this isn't doing what you think it's doing: JTextArea(100, 200);. You're not creating a JTextArea that is 100 by 200 pixels but rather is 100 rows by 200 columns which is one amazingly huge JTextArea. You'll want to read the documentation, the API when using unfamiliar components.
You state, "So I've been looking at other solutions to this problem, but it seems that none of them help at all." Likely the "other solutions" have recommended that you use layout managers, and rather than state that they don't "help at all", you should instead strive to learn how to use these tools since those other solutions are correct.
And yeah, you're trying to use JButtons in a JButton array that have not yet been created. Understand that an array of reference type, such as an array of JButton is initially filled with nothing but null references, similar to an empty carton of eggs. Just like you can't use any eggs from the carton until you put eggs in there, you can't use an JButtons in your array before you've placed them in there. In the for loop where you iterate through the array, create each JButton item on the top line: button[i] = new JButton("Something");
You can find links to the Swing tutorials and to other Swing resources here: Swing Info
For example, you tell me which is easier to debug, your code, or this code:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Foo2 extends JPanel {
private static final String[] BUTTON_TEXTS = { "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F",
"G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "l" };
private static final int GAP = 3;
private JTextArea textArea1 = new JTextArea(20, 30);
private JTextArea textArea2 = new JTextArea(20, 30);
public Foo2() {
JPanel textAreaGrid = new JPanel(new GridLayout(1, 0, GAP, GAP)); // gridlayout 1 row
textAreaGrid.add(new JScrollPane(textArea1));
textAreaGrid.add(new JScrollPane(textArea2));
JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(2, 0, GAP, GAP)); // 2 rows
for (String btnText : BUTTON_TEXTS) {
buttonPanel.add(new JButton(btnText));
}
setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(GAP, GAP, GAP, GAP));
setLayout(new BorderLayout(GAP, GAP)); // main GUI uses border layout
add(textAreaGrid, BorderLayout.CENTER);
add(buttonPanel, BorderLayout.PAGE_END);
}
private static void createAndShowGui() {
Foo2 mainPanel = new Foo2();
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Foo2");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
frame.getContentPane().add(mainPanel);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationByPlatform(true);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
createAndShowGui();
}
});
}
}
Which displays as:
Related
I read some answered questions in this forum (this one for example) where it is strictly recommended to avoid the use of setXXXSize() methods to resize components in swing applications.
So, coming to my problem, i would like to know how to best resize a JScrollPane in order to avoid its parent panel to increase its size without any control.
Before writing some code, i want to describe the real situation, since i will post a "toy example".
In my JFrame i'm currently using a border layout for my content pane. At BorderLayout.CENTER there is a JPanel where i do some custom painting.
At BorderLayout.EAST there is a JPanel (say eastPanel) containing some components inside another panel (this panel will be added to eastPanel at BorderLayout.NORTH), and a JScrollPane which contains a JTable (added to eastPanel at BorderLayout.CENTER). This table will have a lot of rows.
Since i want eastPanel's height to be the same as centerPanel's height, i need some way to avoid the JScrollPane to increase its size in order to try to display as much rows as possible.
For now i wasn't be able to find another solution apart from calling setPreferredSize on the eastPanel containing the scrollpane, but i have to admit that i hate this kind of solution.
Sample Code
In this code sample i added some random labels at the north of eastPanel and inside the JScrollPane, since my purpose was to post a short sample of code.
However, the situation is very similar to the one i have described above.
I wasn't be able to solve my problem without using this "terrible" line of code :
eastPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(eastPanel.getPreferredSize().width, centerPanel.getPreferredSize().height));
I would like to avoid a more complex layout for a simple situation like this. Am i missing something ? Also, is setting that empty border an acceptable way to set the size of the panel where i will do some custom painting?
Code :
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;
public class Test
{
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try { UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
new TestFrame().setVisible(true);
}
catch(Exception exception) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Fatal error while initialiing application", "Error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
}
}
});
}
}
class TestFrame extends JFrame
{
public TestFrame() {
super("Test");
setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JPanel pane = new JPanel(new BorderLayout(20, 0));
pane.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(20, 20, 20, 20));
JPanel centerPanel = new JPanel();
centerPanel.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
centerPanel.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(400, 400, 0, 0));
// centerPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 400));
JPanel eastPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout(0, 20));
JPanel labelsContainer = new JPanel(new GridLayout(0, 1));
for(int i=0;i<7;i++) labelsContainer.add(new JLabel(String.valueOf(i)));
eastPanel.add(labelsContainer, BorderLayout.NORTH);
JPanel moreLabelsContainer = new JPanel(new GridLayout(0, 1));
for(int i=7;i<70;i++) moreLabelsContainer.add(new JLabel(String.valueOf(i)));
JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(moreLabelsContainer, JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS, JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
eastPanel.add(scroll, BorderLayout.CENTER);
eastPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(eastPanel.getPreferredSize().width, centerPanel.getPreferredSize().height));
pane.add(centerPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
pane.add(eastPanel, BorderLayout.EAST);
setContentPane(pane);
pack();
setLocationRelativeTo(null);
}
}
Thanks for your help !
I am not aware of a layout manager that restricts the height of the panel based on the height of a specific component in the panel.
One way is to customize the behaviour of the parent panel that contains the two child components.
The code might be something like:
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize()
{
Dimension d = super.getPreferredSize();
BorderLayout layout = (BorderLayout)getLayout();
Component center = layout.getLayoutComponent(BorderLayout.CENTER);
int centerHeight = center.getPreferreidSize().height;
if (d.height > centerHeight)
d.height = centerHeight;
return d;
}
This approach will allow for dynamic calculation of the height based on the component in the center.
Another option is to write you own layout manager. Then you can control this type of logic from within the layout manager.
Also, is setting that empty border an acceptable way to set the size of the panel where i will do some custom painting?
I override the getPreferredSize() to return the appropriate dimension.
By using the EmptyBorder you lose the ability to add a true Border to the panel, so I wouldn't recommend it.
I've tried a lot of different ways, but I will explain two and what was happening (no error messages or anything, just not showing up like they should or just not showing up at all):
First, I created a JPanel called layout and set it as a BorderLayout. Here is a snippet of how I made it look:
JPanel layout = new JPanel();
layout.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
colorChoice = new JLabel("Choose your color: ");
layout.add(colorChoice, BorderLayout.NORTH);
colorBox = new JComboBox(fireworkColors);
colorBox.addActionListener(this);
layout.add(colorBox, BorderLayout.NORTH);
In this scenario what happens is they don't show up at all. It just continues on with whatever else I added.
So then I just tried setLayout(new BorderLayout()); Here is a snippet of that code:
setLayout(new BorderLayout());
colorChoice = new JLabel("Choose your color: ");
add(colorChoice, BorderLayout.NORTH);
colorBox = new JComboBox(fireworkColors);
colorBox.addActionListener(this);
add(colorBox, BorderLayout.NORTH);
In this scenario they are added, however, the width takes up the entire width of the frame and the textfield (not shown in the snippet) takes up basically everything else.
Here is what I have tried:
setPreferredSize() & setSize()
Is there something else that I am missing? Thank you.
I also should note that this is a separate class and there is no main in this class. I only say this because I've extended JPanel instead of JFrame. I've seen some people extend JFrame and use JFrame, but I haven't tried it yet.
You created a JPanel, but didn't add it to any container. It won't be visible until it is added to something (a JFrame, or another panel that is in a frame somewhere up the hierarhcy)
You added two components to the same position in the BorderLayout. The last one added is the one that will occupy that position.
Update:
You do not need to extend JFrame. I never do, instead I always extend JPanel. This makes my custom components more flexible: they can be added in another panel, or they can be added to a frame.
So, to demonstrate the problem I will make an entire, small, program:
public class BadGui
{
public static void main(String[] argv)
{
final JFrame frame = new JFrame("Hello World");
final JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.add(new JLabel("Hello"), BorderLayout.NORTH);
panel.add(new JLabel("World"), BorderLayout.SOUTH);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
In this program I created a panel, but did not add it to anything so it never becomes visible.
In the next program I will fix it by adding the panel to the frame.
public class FixedGui
{
public static void main(String[] argv)
{
final JFrame frame = new JFrame("Hello World");
final JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.add(new JLabel("Hello"), BorderLayout.NORTH);
panel.add(new JLabel("World"), BorderLayout.SOUTH);
frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
Note that in both of these, when I added something to the panel, I chose different layout parameters (one label I put in 'North' and the other in 'South').
Here is an example of a JPanel with a BorderLayout that adds a JPanel with a button and label to the "North"
public class Frames extends JFrame
{
public Frames()
{
JPanel homePanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
JPanel northContainerPanel = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
JButton yourBtn = new JButton("I Do Nothing");
JLabel yourLabel = new JLabel("I Say Stuff");
homePanel.add(northContainerPanel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
northContainerPanel.add(yourBtn);
northContainerPanel.add(yourLabel);
add(homePanel);
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
setLocationRelativeTo(null);
setExtendedState(JFrame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
setTitle("Cool Stuff");
pack();
setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(Frames::new);
}
}
The below suggestion is assuming that your extending JFrame.
Testing
First of all, without seeing everything, theres always a numerous amount of things you can try.
First off, after you load everything, try adding this in (Again, assuming your extending JFrame:
revalidate();
repaint();
I add this into my own Swing projects all the time, as it refreshes and checks to see that everything is on the frame.
If that doesn't work, make sure that all your JComponent's are added to your JPanel, and ONLY your JPanel is on your JFrame. Your JFrame cannot sort everything out; the JPanel does that.
JPanel window = new JPanel();
JButton button = new JButton("Press me");
add(window);
window.add(button); // Notice how it's the JPanel that holds my components.
One thing though, you still add your JMenu's and what-not through your JFrame, not your JPanel.
I'm trying to understand how Java.awt works (we need to create a GUI without GUI editor)
the following code does not show 2 TextAreas:
Frame fr = new Frame("Parser");
Panel buttons = new Panel();
Panel inputText = new Panel();
Panel outputText = new Panel();
String here = new String ("Insert code here...");
TextArea input = new TextArea(here, 9, 96, TextArea.SCROLLBARS_VERTICAL_ONLY);
TextArea output = new TextArea(here, 9,96,TextArea.SCROLLBARS_VERTICAL_ONLY);
public Window(){
fr.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent we) {
fr.dispose();
}
}
);
fr.setSize(700, 400);
fr.setLocation(200,100);
fr.setResizable(false);
fr.add(buttons);
fr.add(inputText);
fr.add(outputText);
buttons.setBounds(new Rectangle(0,0,700,60));
buttons.setBackground(new Color(200,200,200));
inputText.setBounds(new Rectangle(0,60,700,170));
inputText.setBackground(new Color(255,255,255));
inputText.add(input);
outputText.setBounds(new Rectangle(0,230,700,170));
outputText.setBackground(new Color(200,200,200));
outputText.add(output);
}
Obtained result:
Expected result:
Your code does not respect the layout managers that your containers are using. I believe that AWT Frames use a BorderLayout by default (edit: yes they do, per the Frame API. Suggestions:
In general avoid AWT for Swing which has much greater power and flexibility, although it too is showing its age, just less so than AWT.
Read up on and use layout managers in a smart way to do your heavy lifting for you. Here it looks like a BoxLayout could help you.
Avoid use of null layouts. While yes, that could offer you a quick and easy fix for your current code, it leads to the creation of very inflexible GUI's that while they might look good on one platform look terrible on most other platforms or screen resolutions and that are very difficult to update and maintain.
Avoid setting bounds, sizes or locations of any components, and again let the components and their container's layout managers set the sizes for you.
The Layout Manager Tutorial
For example:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import javax.swing.*;
public class MyWindow extends JPanel {
private static final int ROWS = 10;
private static final int COLS = 50;
private static final String[] BUTTON_NAMES = { "Monday", "Tuesday",
"Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday" };
private static final int GAP = 3;
private JTextArea inputTextArea = new JTextArea(ROWS, COLS);
private JTextArea outputTextArea = new JTextArea(ROWS, COLS);
public MyWindow() {
JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(1, 0, GAP, 0));
for (String btnName : BUTTON_NAMES) {
buttonPanel.add(new JButton(btnName));
}
outputTextArea.setFocusable(false);
outputTextArea.setEditable(false);
setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(GAP, GAP, GAP, GAP));
setLayout(new BoxLayout(this, BoxLayout.PAGE_AXIS));
add(buttonPanel);
add(putInTitledScrollPane(inputTextArea, "Input Text"));
add(putInTitledScrollPane(outputTextArea, "Output Text"));
}
private JPanel putInTitledScrollPane(JComponent component,
String title) {
JPanel wrapperPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
wrapperPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder(title));
wrapperPanel.add(new JScrollPane(component));
return wrapperPanel;
}
private static void createAndShowGui() {
MyWindow mainPanel = new MyWindow();
JFrame frame = new JFrame("MyWindow");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
frame.getContentPane().add(mainPanel);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationByPlatform(true);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
createAndShowGui();
}
});
}
}
Which displays as:
Use of layout managers gives you much greater ease when it comes to changing or enhancing your GUI. For example, since I'm setting my JTextArea's width with a COL constant, if I change the COL constant, the whole GUI widens, even the buttons and the button JPanel, since the layout managers are handling all the sizing. With your code, you'd have to manually change the width of every component added to the GUI, which is prone to bug creation.
Because you are manually laying out your components, you are needed to set layout to null (setLayout(null);)
so before adding any component add this line in your code.
fr.setLayout(null);
Now you will get this :
The useless Layout Manager guy is back again, I just can't seem to get my head around these darn layouts and make them work the way I want.
Anyway, I want to have a JFrame which has one large panel at the top (I call it a header) which runs from the left to right side of the frame at the north part of the frame, then four panels below it, two just below the header and two below those, and finally a "footer" panel, basically the same as the header panel, only at the south part of the frame.
Like this:
I had code which had the four middle panels working fine, but the header panel just messed everything up, and I have since been testing with the demo layout manager code for GridBagLayout, GridLayout again and BoxLayout. I can't getting any to work as I want.
For the aware of you here, you will probably notice I've already had a question related to this, and if having two similar questions are not allowed, please make me aware and I will move this to my previous question and this can be closed.
public Shop() {
shopUI = new JFrame("Shop Menu");
shopUI.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
shopUI.setBounds(100, 100, 700, 500);
shopUI.setResizable(false);
allPanels = new JPanel();
headerPanel = new JPanel();
headerPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
headerPanel.setBackground(Color.cyan);
mainPanel = new JPanel();
mainPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,2));
topLeft = new JPanel();
topLeft.setBackground(Color.pink);
topRight = new JPanel();
topRight.setBackground(Color.black);
bottomLeft = new JPanel();
bottomLeft.setBackground(Color.green);
bottomRight = new JPanel();
bottomRight.setBackground(Color.blue);
footerPanel = new JPanel();
footerPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
footerPanel.setBackground(Color.magenta);
mainPanel.add(topLeft);
mainPanel.add(topRight);
mainPanel.add(bottomLeft);
mainPanel.add(bottomRight);
allPanels.add(headerPanel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
allPanels.add(footerPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
allPanels.add(mainPanel);
shopUI.add(allPanels);
shopUI.setVisible(true);
}
I suggest learning about border layout.
for what you want, put the header in the NORTH of the border panel, and the footer in the SOUTH. How you do your other panels depends a bit on what you want them to do; if you always want them to be the same size as each other, you can use a gridlayout for them; if not, you can use boxlayout to lay either the two pairs horizontally or the two pairs vertically, again depending on what you want them to do when the frame resizes.
I think using layout managers is simplified by deciding what you want to happen in the first place, including what happens when the frame is resized. That's a large part of what layouts are all about, anyway -- what stretches, what lines up, etc.
Anyway. what you have there looks like classic BorderLayout to me. Let us know if you need further help. Incidentally, BorderLayout is default for JFrame...
edit...
this will get more interesting when you put something in the panels...
package simpleborderlayout;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class Main
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Main main = new Main(args);
main.go();
}
public Main(String ... args)
{}
public void go()
{
JPanel headerPanel = getPanel(Color.RED);
JPanel footerPanel = getPanel(Color.BLUE);
JPanel p1 = getPanel(Color.GRAY);
JPanel p2 = getPanel(Color.GRAY);
JPanel p3 = getPanel(Color.GRAY);
JPanel p4 = getPanel(Color.GRAY);
GridLayout gridLayout = new GridLayout(2,2);
JPanel middlePanel = new JPanel(gridLayout);
middlePanel.add(p1);
middlePanel.add(p2);
middlePanel.add(p3);
middlePanel.add(p4);
JFrame mainFrame = new JFrame();
mainFrame.add(headerPanel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
mainFrame.add(middlePanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
mainFrame.add(footerPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
mainFrame.pack();
mainFrame.setVisible(true);
}
private JPanel getPanel(Color c)
{
JPanel result = new JPanel();
result.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(c));
return result;
}
}
I am working inside of a quite complex eclipse based application, and having a problem with a JTable based custom component inside of a JSplitPane. The part of the application that I actually have access to is a panel, within a tab, within a panel, within the actual application, so there are a lot of things that can go wrong.
The specific problem that I'm having right now is that the table component is selecting the wrong cell when I click on it. If I select a cell in row 0, column 0, the cell that actually gets selected is at row 2, column 0, which is about 20 pixels below the actual click. This only happens if the table is in a JSplitPane though: if I just add the table itself to a panel, cell selection is correct.
What it seems like to me is that because the table is in a JSplitPane, the boundaries of the table (or maybe the viewport of the scroll pane containing the table?) are off by about 20 pixels somewhere. Another problem that I had which can back this theory up, is that scrolling the table caused repaints above the table: so for example, as I scrolled down, instead of the table scrolling, it actually moved upwards (painting over the components above the table) about 20 pixels before scrolling. I was able to workaround this problem by adding
jscrollpane.getViewport().setScrollMode(JViewport.BACKINGSTORE_SCROLL_MODE);
to the scrollpane that contained the table.
Because of all the custom components involved, I can't actually get a small app that shows the problem, but I have the next best thing, which is an app that shows the layout that I have (of course, it doesn't actually have the same problems). Any ideas on what might be causing the problem?
//Test class showing layout of table/splitpane
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class SplitTest
{
private static JFrame frame;
private static JPanel buildTable()
{
JPanel tblPanel = new JPanel();
tblPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
String[] cols = new String[]{"one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven"};
Object[][] data = new Object[30][7];
for(int x = 0;x < data.length;x++)
for(int y = 0;y < data[x].length;y++)
data[x][y] = x + ", " + y;
JTable tbl = new JTable(data, cols);
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(tbl);
tblPanel.add(scrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
return tblPanel;
}
private static JPanel buildTab()
{
JPanel pnl = new JPanel();
pnl.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
JPanel menuPnl = new JPanel();
menuPnl.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
menuPnl.add(new JLabel("label"));
menuPnl.add(new JComboBox(new String[]{"one", "two"}));
menuPnl.add(new JButton("Button"));
pnl.add(menuPnl, BorderLayout.NORTH);
JSplitPane splitPane = new JSplitPane(JSplitPane.VERTICAL_SPLIT);
splitPane.setLeftComponent(buildTable());
JPanel bottomPnl = new JPanel();
bottomPnl.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(800, 200));
bottomPnl.setBackground(Color.RED);
splitPane.setRightComponent(bottomPnl);
splitPane.setDividerLocation(.5);
pnl.add(splitPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
return pnl;
}
private static JTabbedPane buildGUI()
{
JTabbedPane topLevelTabbedFrame = new JTabbedPane();
topLevelTabbedFrame.addTab("Tab 1", buildTab());
topLevelTabbedFrame.addTab("Tab 2", new JPanel());
topLevelTabbedFrame.addTab("Tab 3", new JPanel());
return topLevelTabbedFrame;
}
private static void createAndShowGUI()
{
frame = new JFrame("Split Test");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.getContentPane().add(buildGUI(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
// frame.setSize(new Dimension(800, 600));
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable()
{
public void run()
{
createAndShowGUI();
}
});
}
}
Because of all the custom components involved, I can't actually get a small app that shows the problem, but I have the next best thing, which is an app that shows the layout that I have (of course, it doesn't actually have the same problems).
I was about to tell you the posted code workd just fine, and the I read this.
Anyway, it seems the problem lies in all the custom components you added to the mix. For JTable and JSplitPane work fine alone.
What I would do is to remove components one by one until it works ( probably I will work when the code is similar to the one posted and there is nothing else there )
Or you can go the opposite way which is easier. Start with your sample code and then add more and more components until it fail.
You can take this opportunity to refactor and clean your code and move unneeded components. And even ( why not ) add test cases in the process.
Good luck.
Have you tries running it on a different box to check if its hardware related.
May be related to this bug
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4763448
As it turns out, the problem was with the order that the components were initialized and added to the split pane. So the eventual fix was to delay adding the table to the split pane until after the split pane was actually added to the panel, rather than adding the table to the split pane before adding the split pane to the panel. Making that small change fixed the issue.