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!
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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 want to create a menu with tabs which displays some options like the palette used by Window Builder of Eclipse when I click in a tab.
I need something similar to this:
I guess swing has no element like this. But you could take a look at the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) which is maintained by the Eclipse Foundation. It includes a widget called ExpandBar, which is probably what you are searching for. Documentation and API found
here.
I'm having a problem with the GUI of a java project. I construct the GUI using the Netbeans GUI-builder. In the construction field, more specifically, Netbeans all the JLabels appear deep black but when I run the file (shift-F6) all the JLabels appear grayed out.
Here are some screens to clarify the problem:
In Netbeans: http://i51.tinypic.com/zl3z1j.jpg
While running: http://i56.tinypic.com/fnfwc0.jpg
What could be the cause of this problem?
This may be a look-and-feel problem. I seem to recall that the Netbeans GUI builder uses your system native look-and-feel. By default, however, your application will probably use the Swing LAF (the name of which I forget just now). This means that when you run the application, you won't see the same LAF as you see in the GUI builder. The colors used by the two LAFs are slightly different.
See this Java help page for some options on setting the look and feel. However, since it looks like you're going for a custom look anyway, you might be better off setting all of your colors explicitly.
I would like to create extend a Java Swing application to have a look somewhat similar to an IDE such as Eclipse or Visual Studio. That’s, there would be a panel at the left that displays a tree, and a tab panel on the right that allows several elements of the tree to be opened and edited on right. For this I could easily use a BorderLayout and just use the center and left areas.
However, I would also like to have the ability for the user to drag the border between these two panels, just like Eclipse and Visual Studio allow. I can think of several ways to do this, but was curious if anyone had found a particularly good way to do this, or knew of an example. I’ve googled for it, but have not found anything.
You could use JSplitPane. And maybe have a look at an article about a MultiSplitPane.
While JSplitPane does exactly what you asked for, you might also be interested in JToolBar, which does other Eclipse-like things such as attach/detach and drag a panel of tools around the UI.