[Juglist] the sizing of Java GUI components

[Richard O. Hammer]

How are component sizes determined in AWT and Swing?  My limited 
experience with GUI building has generally left me frustrated, because 
there are many sizing mechanisms available which do not seem to work. 
 My attempts to set sizes routinely get ignored or overridden.

I would like to believe that there is some design principle which has 
been implemented in the Java GUI APIs, and that once I learn that 
principle then I can know ahead of time which of the available sizing 
mechanisms will work.  But as it is, without knowing the principle, I 
have to try and fail and try and fail and try  ...

I'd dream of finding an article named "How the sizes of Java GUI 
components are determined".  Can anybody point me to that?

Thanks,

Rich Hammer

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