I have a vertically split JSplitPane and when I move the divider down, it shifts the bottom component and the bottom gets cut off. Is there a way to specify the resize behavior of a JSplitPane so the top (of the bottom component) gets covered by the split pane and the bottom is the last thing to get covered?
thanks,
Jeff
The components are painted at the "(0,0)" position for each part of the split pane.
I guess you could create your own custom UI that does whatever you want.
A simpler approach might be to add the component to a scroll pane. You could then just let the scrollbars appear if required.
Or, if you really want only the bottom part of the component to be shown you could control the viewport position whenever the divider is moved. You can handle this by listening for a "dividerLocation" PropertyChangeEvent.
I think you might need to attach an event to the JSplitPane's resize event (I forget exactly what it's called). The event should then move the content up to suit.
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I have used borderlayout to specify where the content of my java GUI shall be placed, I have then chosen to place it on EAST and then made two boxlayouts to show two columns of buttons. I now have to place something underneath it and not beside it. How would you suggest or advice me to do so, using any layout but preferably boxlayout and not absolute layout(null). Thanks in advance.
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The arrow points to the place I want another JPanel to be.
You could...
Wrap both of the button panels in a JPanel
Whatever component goes at the arrow, wrap in a JPanel with GrigbagLayout (just to center it).
Create another JPanel with BorderLayout that will hold the above panels. Use CENTER and SOUTH.
Give an EmptyBorder to the SOUTH panel, only specifying the top region and space it accordingly.
Really there are many ways to accomplish this. The key though is to nest JPanels and make use of the different layout managers with each, use EmptyBorders or stuts for empty spaces til you get your desired effect. The possibilities are endless. I don't think there's one right answer. Since we don't have a runnable example, I say just try the above, and mix and match will you get what you want.
I have JTextPane inside JScrollPane. When I highlight some word in text pane I want to have their position highlighted on JScrollBar (Similar to highlighting errors in source code in Eclipse).
Is this possible with Swing?
The "immediate" problem you have is the fact that the scroll pane does not support the concept of "row footers", which would provide you an area on the right hand side of the scroll pane you could render you highlight points
Choice #1
What you need is an implementation that does. You could take a look at JideScrollPane which provides not only support for row footers, but column footers as well.
From there it's a simple case of using the same concept as decorating a normal scroll pane (row and column header).
Check out Providing Custom Decorations for some hints.
Choice #2
The other choice (I can think of) would be to place a normal JScrollPane onto a JPanel using a BorderLayout so that the scroll pane occupied the center position. This would then allow you to place a custom component to the EAST position that would act as you "marker" pane.
This is slightly simpler, as it doesn't require a lot of additional changes to be made. You would then need to calculate the position of the text in the view port as a percentage of the it's height, which would allow you to translate it back to the "marker" pane
I'm fairly new to Java and I'm trying to create a GUI application with some labels, buttons, and textfields. The program is pretty simple and I just wanted to use a default layout, which is FlowLayout. I managed to place and size everything fine, but the only thing seem to be not working is the alignment. I want to place buttons and textfields with certain alignments, but whenever I set an alignment, it moves the text inside of whatever the object rather than the object itself. For example, I wrote:
button.setHorizontalAlignment(JButton.RIGHT);
but it seems like it aligns the text inside the button instead of the button itself.
Is there any way to align the button itself rather than the text inside of it?
I know the alignment stuff could be easier with some other type of layout (e.g. BoxLayout), but I just want to use the FlowLayout for this one, unless it is impossible to align them using the FlowLayout (which I don't think so).
Thanks in advance.
See the constructor FlowLayout(int align).
Constructs a new FlowLayout with the specified alignment and a default 5-unit horizontal and vertical gap. The value of the alignment argument must be one of FlowLayout.LEFT, FlowLayout.RIGHT, FlowLayout.CENTER, FlowLayout.LEADING, or FlowLayout.TRAILING.
It seems you are after a FlowLayout.RIGHT as seen in this answer (the combo and check box at the top).
I don't think you can do this with a FlowLayout alone.
My suggestions would be:
Consider switching to MigLayout which is a much more powerful layout mechanism. MigLayout basically lets you position you components within a flexible grid, and you can set the specific alignment of a component within each grid cell.
When you want alignment of subcomponents, it also often makes sense to put them inside a nested JPanel. You can then use a separate layout for this JPanel (BorderLayout perhaps?) which will enable you to get the exact alignment that you want.
setHorizontalAlignment of AbstractButton sets the horizontal alignment of the icon and text not the position of the button. AbstractButton's default is SwingConstants.CENTER.
If you want to align the button..set the position while adding it to the panel or frame..something like this....
p.add(button, BorderLayout.SOUTH);//using `BorderLayout`
Flow layouts are typically used to arrange buttons in a panel. It will arrange buttons left to right until no more buttons fit on the same line.
I've created an applet which has one large panel to display data surrounded by several controls (buttons, textfields, etc.). The large panel contains several layers of labels which I render myself.
The controls all have tooltips associated with them, and some of these tooltips overlap the main panel. When they disappear, they leave a hole in the main panel image until the main panel is repainted.
Now mind you, this does not always happen. It only occurs when the cursor is in a certain range. If you get far enough to either the left or right (no difference noted for changes along the Y axis), the holes are painted over when the tooltip disappears.
I'm not well-versed on how tooltips and repainting are supposed to work, and if this is a sign that there's something dreadfully wrong with my program, but if I can just call repaint on the main panel whenever the tooltip disappears, I should be fine. Is there something I can override in tooltip to make this happen?
I'm using Swing
Thanks.
To answer your question (after you found a solution by the comments): Swing has some quite elaborate repaint management built in. When a tooltip disappears, the rectangle below it is repainted.
Now, which components have to be repainted? All those who overlap with the given rectangle, and are not themselves hidden (in the region in question) by other components - but only opaque components count here. (This is the whole reason we need the opaque property on JComponent - to optimize repainting.)
Your label declared itself being opaque, but did not really paint its whole area on a paintComponent, and such the region of the tooltip which should have been covered by the label stayed unpainted.
Declaring your label to be partly transparent caused also the concerning region of the component behind it to be repainted.
In windows, Java, etc, the scroll pane scrolls the widgets inside. What I'm wondering is, how exactly does it do its scrolling? Does it change the location of each nested widget, or does it have a content widget that it moves around? Or is it something else? Also, when both scrollbars are present, how does it mask that little square at the bottom right? That square is sometimes used to resize. Is it a separate nested widget?
Thanks
I think it just changes the location of the widget, button, or thing-a-ma-bober.
But my second guess would be it just draws the components "outside" of the scroll pane without being seen and when you scroll it just redraws dynamically.