"Box" component? Ted Neward Patterns/C++/Java/CORBA/EJB/COM-DCOM spoken here http://www.javageeks.com/~tneward "I don't even speak for myself; my wife won't let me." --Me -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kontorotsui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Java-Linux List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 11:37 AM Subject: Re: Sometimes easy things are hard/impossible in Java >Kontorotsui wrote: >> >> 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. > >I've found Swing's Box component great for this sort of job. Yes, you >have to create multiple boxes (this example would require 3 horizontal >boxes inside a vertical box), but they're easy to use, low-overhead, and >the "glue" and "strut" components make it dead-easy to construct this >sort of layout. > >Nathan > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
