I have been trying for the past few hours to figure out how to add a label component to a window however with no prevail. I have created a new desktop application project in Netbeans and it comes with pre-generated code. I want to add a label to it but it just does not show?. I am unsure as to why because i am following the normal panel.add(component) convention.
Would really appreciate some help!. I pasted the full file sourecode here http://pastebin.com/qJk6bSWn .
Any ideas?
What layout is your JPanel using? If it's using the Netbeans GUI builder default of free design you won't be able to manually add components. You'll need to set it to some layout manager.
Parts of your gui can have the Free Design layout, but you'll need to change the layout of the components that you want to manually add to.
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I have been trying for the past few hours to figure out how to add a label component to a window however with no prevail. I have created a new desktop application project in Netbeans and it comes with pre-generated code. I want to add a label to it but it just does not show?. I am unsure as to why because i am following the normal panel.add(component) convention.
Would really appreciate some help!. I pasted the full file sourecode here http://pastebin.com/qJk6bSWn .
Any ideas?
What layout is your JPanel using? If it's using the Netbeans GUI builder default of free design you won't be able to manually add components. You'll need to set it to some layout manager.
Parts of your gui can have the Free Design layout, but you'll need to change the layout of the components that you want to manually add to.
I am trying to make my own Java component for use with windowBuilder in eclipse. Creating the component is the easy part. The problem is getting eclipse to draw the component when one is created.
I have tried using SWT designer but that doesn't exactly work (can't make completely custom components).
Example:
If I want to create a Line component, which has 2 point members, I can't set the points from the design view of eclipse.
I was wondering whether this can be done.
I realize this might sound vague, and I will make any clarifications needed.
To preview use:
It should also be possible to add custom component to WindowBuilder:
right-click on the swing palette, then choose Palette manager .
You'll have the option to import a jar file to be added to the palette.
I am not familiar with an option to make a custom component visible in the static WindowBuilder view.
I'm a beginner and I used absolute layout in my GUI application using Eclipse WindowBuilder. It works just fine most of the time, but when I minimize or maximize the GUI the content either moves to one side of the page or some part of it vanishes. Can you give a solution for this layout problem? Should it auto adjust itself?
I don't know very much about Java (I know the basics). I want to create an Image Gallery with Netbeans, but I have absolutely no clue how to do this.
What I want to do:
The User should see all Images inside a specified folder (as thumbs) and should be able to view it in "original size" upon clicking on the Photo. Also (via a Button) he should be able to "transfer" an Image file to that folder.
So basically I have a database of misc. articles, each article has some Images in a unique folder on the Filesystem (eg. /images/art_01), I want to display all images within this folder and have the possibility to add (speaking, copying) new Images into this folder (there is no need to delete an Image) arranged, so it doesn't look too disgusting ;).
Since I just now the basics of Java, I qould appreciate if someone could help me, with something I can adapt directly into a JFrame - if that's possible.
Thanks ;)
With netbeans it's really easy, netbeans has a JFrame/JPanel drag&drop designer/gui builder (right click on package -> new -> JFrame form). After customizing the GUI you can make your main class extend your custom frame, or add a new custom panel to your JFrame, depending on whether you choose to make a JFrame or a JPanel.
http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/quickstart-gui.html some details on how to use the netbeans gui builder.
With this builder you can also add events to the different components. If you want to view a directory use JFileChooser.
What way would you suggest to layout (locate) Jbuttons and Jlabes in java in the fashion depicted in the picture below? Is there any tool for visually being able to place the components on a form in Java, rather than specifying the component locations in the code one by one.
Thanks
I am using eclipse
You can use Swing GUI Builder for visually layout component.
For Eclipse you can use WindowBuilder. Look for Installation guide with update site of eclipse. Also take a look at the Tutorial.
Yes, NetBeans comes with a visual UI builder for Swing.
Use NetBeans, its have a create GUI tool!