After extensive experience with Java GUI, mostly by using Swing, I wonder why
there are hard tasks which can be accomplished very easily and easy ones which
look almost impossible.
Here are two examples.
I have a grid with 3 buttons in the first row and 2 buttons in the third, I
wanted to place the third row buttons centered, like this:
XX XX XX
XX XX XX
XXX XXX
but no layout manager allows to do it in a single panel, I had to do several
panels.
But the biggest example is this: suppose I have a JFrame subclass that
represents my main window, it includes a menu bar and 5 panels with a border
layout. If I want to make my window with a green background, I though I had to
set the background color of the main window... instead I have to set the green
background color to ALL the objects I put on the window.
Why force each JComponent to have the standard grey background and black
foreground, when it could have been, by default, the container one?
Maybe I wrote a long series of mistakes and there are easy ways to do what I
wanted to do (if case there are, please let me know), but the fact that after
extensive search in the (mostly poor) documentation (the official Java
tutorial!) and tests... if these are not Java faults, then it's the support.
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Andrea "Kontorotsui" Controzzi - MALE Student of Computer Science at
University of Pisa - Italy - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My home page: http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~controzz/intro.html
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