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JFrame size affecting JButton size but only vertically?
I am confused about how JFrame extends the JButton vertically to match JFrame min size but not horizontally. I would like for it to not extend in either direction and know why it extends or doesn't.
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How to get container components according to layout?
I'm having two different issues during working with GUI.
The first one is: how can i get container components? I want to get 5 components from BorderLayout (and prefer to get them with knowledge of ...
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Drawing graphics on a panel
I am trying to draw graphics on panels, but I am not sure how I would go about doing that.
I have tried creating a class that extends the JPanel and overrided paintComponent, and some other methods, ...
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How to make this layout using JFrame
I'd like to make this layout using JFrame, is it possible ?
Thank you
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How to remove blank space between image and text inside the JPanel?
I'm trying to develop a little application for my Java class. I'm using jsoup to get information from an URL.
I finally got everything, but I don't know how to remove this huge blank between the ...
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How to fill JFrame window with a JPanel?
I am trying to set a JPanel fill the whole window of a JFrame. The layout of JPanel is GridBagLayout. If i change it to BorderLayout it works. But i need the GridBagLayout and in this way the JPanel ...
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How to stack text fields vertically on a Panel?
I am working on the little GUI GPA calculation program. I set up my button so that once it's clicked some text fields and comboboxes will be added to a panel, but everytime when it's clicked, all the ...
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Java GUI Best way to create a table of JTables?
[UPDATE!!!!]
This is the finish product:
: )
So I am working on a program that helps me organize and print seatings for dinner. I have a student class with instance variables of their FirstName, ...
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How to keep JPanel from inheriting the size of its container JFrame
I've create a JFrame named homeWindowFrame and set its size to (600, 500) and then I added a JPanel named mainContainerPanel to the JFrame. I set a new size to JPanel but it's not working. JPanel size ...
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Put component inside the smaller one
I wanna get Frame(640x640) with DrawCanvas(960x960) inside like this:
So the part of DrawCanvas must be hidden and frame centered. What layout should I choose? Now I put DrawCanvas inside the frame ...
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How can I display multiple JPanel's from different classes onto my JFrame?
I will have a menu bar in which I can select multiple choices, in which will display a different JPanel for me onto my JFrame. Whenever I choose another option from my menu bar, a different JPanel ...
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What are Java resizable Layout Managers please?
I would like to resize my JFrame layout manager (actually Border Layout)
so I used setPreferredSize but nothing happens ? And some people told me to use another Layout Manager, so what Layout Manager ...
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Java - Switching between JPanels with their own JPanels and resizing these inner JPanels and components depending on JFrame size
I am making program in Java where I have some JPanels with different layouts and I want to switch between them. On these JPanels I have another JPanels with other components (like JButtons and JLabels)...
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How to define the position that I want to my JButton on top of a background image?
I have a small frame that I created and I wanted to give it an image as a background, but when I did that I tried to work with boxlayout to define the positons of the buttons.
But it was a disaster ...
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Placing JLabel, JButton etc. in JFrame
at the begginning i want to say im Polish guy, so sorry if my english will be bad... and my code have polish names.
I am doing calculator in active window, but i have many issues and i can not solve ...
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How can I add two components so they are both independent of each other?
So I am creating a screen with balls that bounce around the screen. I want to place text in the center of the screen without disrupting the physics of the bouncing balls. My solution was to have two ...
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PaintComponent not working with JButtons - FIXED
EDIT: Thank you everyone, you really helped me out here. The final thing I needed to do was make the panels layout null, so the JButtons could move. Thank you!
My paintComponents content doesn't show ...
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Missing Jbutton row inside Jpanel
Can anyone tell me why the JFrame is missing a row of buttons? I'm trying to make a memory card game where you click on the button and it's replaced by an image but some buttons aren't showing up? I ...
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Java JLabel and JTextField Positioning
Right now I have a 'login' JFrame setup. there are 2 labels and 2 fields for username and password. They are centered and appear as so:
username: |text field|
password: |text field|
JPanel ...
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JPanel doesn't show up completely until I resize JFrame
I am making a board game and need two panels on a JFrame. I added them and they look good enough but one of them, the big grid to play the game, doesn't show all the way, I only see a little, I have ...
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Java Swing GUI Adding a Frame Container to another JFrame
I´ve got a class which extends JFrame. An Object of this class should contain another object from another class which also extends from JFrame. If I want do add the object from the secound class to ...
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Problems with JPanel layouting
My GUI looks like this:
my gui
and should look like this:
solution
and this is my code for layout:
public void initComponents(){
setTitle("GUI-Design");
setSize(800, 600);
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Drawing a line at a specific point in JFrame
So here is my code, which displays a 9x9 grid:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class SudokuGrid extends JFrame {
private static final int ROWS = 9;
private static final int COLUMNS =...
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Java: JFrame Layout for Only Drawing?
I'm wanting to draw my components on a JFrame based on coordinates. I don't want a layout to rearrange the components. My project isn't a GUI, it's a game where the images being drawn don't need to be ...
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Want to know difference in JFrames (BorderLayout)
I want to know what is the difference between:
window.getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
and
window.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
(window is a JFrame Object).
Thank's for ure ...
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How do I set my label to be visible even when the Layout is null? Also, JFrame size still defaults to the minimum
This is what my code looks like at the moment:
public TestFrame(){
setSize(x1, y1); /*where these are already defined*/
setLayout(new FlowLayout());
JLabel label = new JLabel("text");
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How to make a Frame with Multiple Panels Like this
I tried this Layout but Its shows only one panel.
I need leftpanel (Panel 1) a bit smaller than the second Panel.
It is currently showing the menu and Panel 1 in center.
I tried all of the every ...
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How can i organize my frame like this?
I want my frame to have 3 panels that will look like that
I'm a total newbie at JPanel and i cant organize it, so if someone can help i'd appreciate it
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How the pack() function behave when we explicitly set the location of the container?
Here is the minimal example what problem I am facing in my main GUI design
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
class ...
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Java Layout Manager tips [closed]
I created a small program which is shown in the link. And I used
absolute layout. But I want to try other layouts. Are there any alternative layouts to use apart from absolute layout ?
Here is the ...
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why does my Jframe open an empty window?
I'm trying to make a game for school, like Puralax. This is my first year of Java.
Currently I'm testing through 'viewTest' and the 'DitMoetWerken.java' class to make my complete JFrame.
My guess ...
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Java adding 2 objects in a JFrame but only 1 is showing
I know this question is asked often in stackoverflow. And i know there is a page on oracle about LayoutManagers but i dont understand how to use it? Can someone help me with my code? Im trying to make ...
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Gephi graph layout
I am trying to find the optimum (best looking) layout for my graph using following Jframe source code:
package org.gephi.toolkit.demos;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import ...
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JPanel/JButtons disappear after JFrame addition of background image
Java newbie here...
I am trying to add an image to the background of my JFrame. I already had buttons added to the panel, on that JFrame. When I added the image to the JFrame, my buttons disappeared. ...
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JFrame getLayout method does not return set cardLayout
I am setting a CardLayout as the a JFrame's layout but when I call the getLayout method a border layout is returned.
import java.awt.CardLayout;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class SSCCE {
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JLabel not showing on top orientation
I have been working on a menu for my program, but I'm having some problems with JLabels because I'm not very experienced with them.
I have a JFrame set up and the layout of the buttons and the ...
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How to add 3 rectangles to Jpanel in java?
I'm trying to add three rectangles to the center of BorderLayout and I'm completely lost. My finished program needs to increase the height of the rectangle as the sliders move but I'm trying to figure ...
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Adding JPanels to JFrame one after another vertically, each touches the border horizontally
I want to add JPanels to JFrame one after another vertically. Each panel should cover the whole width of jframe. These panels should cover the width even if the frame is re sized. I want to have this ...
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Why is my java application blurry? [duplicate]
This is what I wish to make
This is what is being showed when I run my java application. (see the text on my button and the text in text box is java)
I am using Eclipse Luna on Windows 7.
PS: My ...
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How can I set the components of my JFrame to be organized neatly instead of jammed together?
My credit card program uses JFrames and all the Panel/Text/Label stuff and I am having trouble with understanding Layouts. How can I modify the components of my Jframe/label to make them look ...
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JFrame buttons close to eachother
I am creating a virtual piano using JFrame, using buttons to represent keys.
javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
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Java Components Not Displaying + Layout Questions
I've a few questions:
First, and most importantly, why can you run a GUI program with a frame, a couple panels, buttons, etc. several times - without changing anything - and half the time components ...
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Add an existing JPanel to an existing JFrame
i've got a problem adding a jpanel to a jframe, i don't know why it doesn't appear with other layout that is not flowLayout; i don't use FlowLayout because all my swing components can't positioned.
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How to arrange the labels in a JFrame?
I am facing problem in arranging my labels in the frame;
I just want someone to guide me in the right direction.
What i want to do is to create a JButton and place it the left half of the frame, while ...
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How to add multiple JPanels to JFrame with different sizes
I tried to do this from stackoverflow:
adding multiple jPanels to jFrame
But that didn't seem to work out like in the example, could anyone tell me what im doing wrong?
Im trying to add multiple ...
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JButton covers other buttons
I have been stuck in this for a while. The problem is that I want to shift my button to the right side of my screen, but when I use borderlayout.east it removes the other button that I created. Can ...
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Java Panel overlapping Menu
I am new to Java, so this question might be obvious.
I have this Initialization code:
frame = new JFrame();
frame.setTitle("Test");
frame.setBounds(100, 100, 512, 468);
frame....
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How to set a JFrame location beside another JFrame?
In Java, how could I set a JFrame to automatically go beside another JFrame?
So, say I have two JFrame objects, frameA and frameB, and when the program runs, it sets frameAs location to be in the ...
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How do I get thet components that are in a particular layout location in JFrame
I have a JFrame that uses the BorderLayout. How do I get all the components that are in the left or the right or in any other location of this JFrame?
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JFrame Layout with JPanels
I am having a problem trying to layout my JFrame. I'm trying to add the ToolBar top, then Info below that, then colour below that to the right, then Copies in the center, then Print button to left and ...
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