Hi, Sybille, This may sound obvious, but it looks to me a JTable is a more natural choice for your problem.
You can use the table headers as your labels, and use JTextField as TableCellEditor. I never tried it myself, though. Mingjian Song > -----Original Message----- > From: Sybille Breunig [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:07 PM > To: Swing Liste > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Layout-Problems > > All replies please to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > -------------------- > > ok, it's been a long time since I've messaged this board. > > I don't know if anyone it around anymore, > > but I got a problem. > > I have a PanelComponent that I made of a bunch of textfields. > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > these are all of different sizes... > > the problem is that I want a Labeling component to go above it... > > so that the labels match up with the fields below them. > > so here's what it could look like: > > name face feet place # > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > |_____________| |_____| |_______| |___________| |__| > > so I want to be able to do this: > > JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout()); > > JPanel scrollPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(0,1)); > > scrollPanel.add(getLabelPanel()); > > scrollPanel.add(new ManyToOnePortPanel(1, true)); > > scrollPanel.add(new ManyToOnePortPanel(2, true)); > > scrollPanel.add(new ManyToOnePortPanel(3, true)); > > scrollPanel.add(new ManyToOnePortPanel(4, true)); > > scrollPanel.add(new ManyToOnePortPanel(5, true)); > > JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(scrollPanel); > > panel.add(scrollPane, BorderLayout.SOUTH); > > panel.add(getButtonPanel(), BorderLayout.SOUTH); > > and have the labels from getLanelPanel() line up perfectly with the > ManyToOnePortPanel. > > Right now, they are both GridLayouts, > > but that leaves TOO much space for the small textfields.. > > any ideas? > > rev aaron > > > _______________________________________________ > Swing mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://eos.dk/mailman/listinfo/swing _______________________________________________ Swing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eos.dk/mailman/listinfo/swing
