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Java Swing GridLayout "Cell span"?
Is there a way to make a single element in a Grid layout take up more than 1 location in a grid. Example: I want to create a textbox that takes up an entire grid row, is there some way to do this?
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Create a Chess board with JPanel [duplicate]
I have a simple Chess board in a JPanel with GridLayout(8,8) as layout manager.
I am trying to add panels for the fields' column name and row number.
Right now I've created another panel with ...
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Is there any way to force GridLayout to leave empty cells?
I have a JTabbedPane with 2 JPanels set to GridLayout(13, 11). The first JPanel has enough of the cells filled out that it leaves the empty cells.
The second JPanel has significantly fewer cells ...
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How to fill a GridLayout top-to-bottom and then left-to-right?
The default behavior of a GridLayout is that the components are filled row by row, and from left to right. I wonder if I can use it so that the components are filled by columns (from left to right)? ...
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Dynamic GridLayout with fixed size
Guidance required..
Would like to achieve something like the image below whereby the child panel stays the same size but contains up to 4 components. I realize I can achieve this by changing the ...
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Swing doesn't respect my GridLayout Rows x Columns definition. How to fix?
I have been trying to resolve this without success.
How to make JPanel p respect the defined GridLayout?
All I get is the first row containing 3 panels but not 4 as I've told Java to perform.
What's ...
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Remove huge gaps between check boxes on panel
Its pretty basic UI, but I cannot setup the JCheckBox buttons so that they are placed immediately after one another (vertically) without any spacing. How would I reduce the spacing seen below?
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Creating a contact list program
I am coding a contact list application in eclipse using Java Swing.
How can I get a simple table layout that contains just columns and rows?
I don't want row or column labels.
Something like this:
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GridLayout not honoring the number of rows I want per column
I have the following,
GridLayout layout = new GridLayout(4, 0);
In the event that I have 5 items, this will create 2 columns, where the first contains 3 rows and the second contains 2 rows. This is ...
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How to use GridBagLayout and GridLayout for optimum alignment?
I wanted to try out GridBagLayout in my program but sadly I don't clearly understand it, I tried implementing GridLayout also but both give me different problems. Let me show you the code and the ...
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How to vertically fill a JPanel with GridLayout or GridBagLayout?
I want to fill a JPanel whose layout is GridLayout, if it's not possible using GridLayout i would like to know if using GridBagLayout is possible and how?
Here's the code:
public class ...
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How to reduce the space between the 3 swing checkboxes?
I want to reduce the size between the components with in the Formatting group (left side on the image). How to do this?
JPanel formattingGroup = createGroupWithName("Formatting");
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Java Layout Manager
I use a grid layout of 2 rows and 6 column. the first column is a label and second is combo. My problem is
according to the size of the label the combo box size also increases.
i want a stable ...
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Best Swing Layout for 2-dimensional grid of buttons?
I'm trying to create a JDialog like the Symbol dialog in Microsoft Word that you get by choosing Symbol... from the Insert menu. Basically, it's an n x m (n and m are not known until runtime) grid of ...
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JLabel in GridLayout
How to add JLabel out of the GridLayout? I have an 8x8 grid layout.
Container content = getContentPane();
content.setLayout(new GridLayout(8, 8,2,2));
for (int f = 0; f < btnArr.length; f++){
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ExpandBar works incorrectly with GridLayout
I'm creating an application in Java and SWT and I have a problem. I want to put ExpandBar into GridLayout. Everything is ok while I don't collapse the expand bar. When I do it, it collpases normally, ...
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Button is filling up the entire cell in GridLayout, Java
I'm a beginner and doing my homework. My button is filling up the whole cell in the gridLayout. I've read about GridBagLayout but my book doesn't mention anything about it so I think there's just an ...
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Forcing JPanel with GridLayout to update / resize
I have a frame with a BorderLayout. In the BorderLayout's center there is a JPanel with a GridLayout. Sometimes I have to change this inner JPanel's GridLayout from 9x9 to 4x4 (or 16x16). But ...
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Border Layout Conflicting with Grid Layout
I have 3 JPanel components. Panel 1 is set to BorderLayout.NORTH, panel 2 is set to BorderLayout.CENTER and panel 3 is set to BorderLayout.SOUTH.
Now panel 1 has a GridLayout(1,2) and panel 2 also ...
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Specify the number of grids in a GridBagLayout
GridLayout creates a grid matrix whose dimension (no of rows and columns) is customizable using two int parameters that is takes as part of its constructor.
Why don't we have such a similar option ...
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Using GridLayout - how to set JPanel size?
I'm using GridLayout and all my panels have the same size, how can I change their size?
I tried all functions getPreferred/Minimum/MaximumSize which makes that, and nothing.
I still want to stay with ...
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How do you stretch a JPanel within a JPanel?
Here is an image of what I'm working with:
And Here is what I would like to acheive:
As you can see, I have an JPanel Outer with a GridLayout of (3, 1)...i.e. 3 row and 1 column
I added 3 JPanels ...
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How can I implement Flowlayout in java to make it so that my GridLayout can have a different sized button?
I programmed a calculator in java using a GridLayout method. I did not consider the fact that it would not make it possible to set different sized buttons. Therefore I am trying to find a work around ...
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Issues with GridLayout not working
I am trying to create a 2x2 grid out of 4 buttons for a membership program I am developing. The issue I'm having is that regardless of what I do, it just shows up as a 1x4 grid. Code is as follows.
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Java: Centering a component inside GridLayout
I have the following java code that creates a basic window:
JPanel panelCampos, panelBoton;
JLabel labelIdCedula, labelContrasena;
JTextField textFieldIdCedula, textFieldContrasena;
JButton ...
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Resizing the panels on gridlayout
I'm trying to make a simple ui game with Java swing. Here is my target layout design: (all panels have same width, excuse my drawing)
I need 3 small height panel and 1 large panel
I used GridLayout ...
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Adding a JLabel above a GridLayout [closed]
I'm having a hard time with containing a GridLayout so that adding a JLabel above it won't throw off anything. I've tried a few different things but still cant seem to get it aligned right.
It's a ...
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Offsetting GUI grid of gifs in java?
so I'm trying to make a battleship game, and I implemented a 10x10 grid containing gifs of some pixelated water. Now, what I'm trying to do is offset the grid one cell down and to the right so I can ...
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Java Swing Gridlayout: Accessing Specific Coordinate
I'm creating a Java swing GUI and I have formatted a JPanel to use a GridLayout. I need to access a specific "box" (i.e. specific coordinate) of the grid, but I cannot see a way to do so.
How can I ...
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How do I use GridLayout and multiple Panels?
How do I use multiple JPanel containers to make this code look like this?
This is the image of what my code is supposed to be like but I cant figure it out.
I can only use GridLayout, BorderLayout ...
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GridLayout throws illegal component position
By default GridLayout(5,3) would add the components in this way:
A B C
D E F
G H I
J K L
M N O
To have the components disposed in the following positions:
A F K
B G L
C H M
D I N
E J O
I have ...
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how to make my textfield bigger for GUI in java
i have a text field like emailid, city and address,
i want to make the address textfield should be bigger as shown in image!
i use BorderLayout as default and GridLayout for the selected panel
top....
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setVgap(0), setHgap(0) not working in gridlayout?
I am trying to build an app that has some components such as buttons, labels, text fields, a menu bar and a picture (I didn't tackle the image problem yet so there is no code for that).
So I made a ...
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Resizing panels in a GridLayout
I want this:
My frame is a GridLayout (3,2), and all I can have is this:
I put the button in a panel, I think it's easier. But how can I change the size of the grid?
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How to move a button after action performed?
I'm working on a program using GridLayout. I have a problem when i try to move a button to another position after action performed. Basically, i have an empty space in the panel with the size of a ...
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JTextField not appearing in grid layout
I'm using a grid layout for one of my programs and when i try to add JTextFields to the grid It doesn't show at all. If i try adding JButtons instead of JTextFields in the same method it works ...
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GridLayout Displaying 2 rows for `new GridLayout(22,1)`
I am trying to create a scorePanel for a game (Yahtzee). The scorepanel must consists of 22 rows and 1 column for each player but the following code i am writing displays 12 rows and 2 columns for ...
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How can I stop a JTextArea and JTextField from stretching?
This has probably been answered here, but my searches drew up a blank, perhaps I am looking for the wrong thing.
How can I stop a JTextArea and a JTextField from stretching? Does swing provide a ...
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How to work with a specific element in GridLayout?
I have a problem adding an icon to a spesific element(grid?) in gridlayout. My gridlayout contains 64 "bricks" which is intended to work as a chessboard.
My gridcode looks like this:
ChessBoard
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Java creating a type of form with GridLayout?
I am trying to make a Pythagoras theorem calculator. Right now, I am trying to make a form using GridLayout. You enter the values of side A, B or C and check the radio button on the side that is ...
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How do i force GridLayout to always have 7 columns
(This is on Java Swing)
I created a gridLayout(6,7), however it looks like it prefers to comply the Vertical requirement with higher priority than the horizontal.
I mean, it will always have 6 rows, ...
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Gap between JPanels in GridLayout
The code below produces nine individual JPanels in which are 9 buttons. The nine JPanels are arranged onto a base JPanel using GridLayout. This base JPanel is then placed onto the ContentPane using ...
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Numberpad Not Displaying Correctly
I have a Java GUI project where I am creating an ATM. I have everything setup, but for some reason my number pad on the left is not displaying properly. It should appear as a 4x3 grid of numbers, but ...
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Grid layout not working?
I am trying to make a 2x2 grid layout that has a JLabel on the top left, and three buttons on the other three spaces. When I do this, I get the unexpected result of one big button (filling up the ...
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GridLayout not working in JPanel
I'm trying to add a JButton to my JPanel multiple times using a GridLayout. For some reason though, every time I run the program it only shows 1 button.
Here's the code:
jPLeft = new JPanel();
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GridLayout null margins
I put several JPanels, each containing a JLabel + JTextField in a GridLayout (as shown below).
I am trying to reduce the spaces between the cells as much as possible.
I did the following :
GridLayout ...
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JButton and its Location methods acting very weird
my problem is, that when I create a JButton, whithin its constructor, I set its location to some relative coordinates, say x = 5, and y = 6, using the following code:
this.setLocation(new Point(x, y))...
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Problems with my GridLayout
I have a GridLayout 2 rows by 5 columns, and I want to make the height of the first row to something like 50, and the second row to 200. I know GridLayout creates equally-sized cells, so this didn't ...
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Java Swing GridLayout not looking like I expect it to
I have a GUI that is a grid layout with 6 rows and 4 columns, the order should go:
Label - RadioButton - RadioButton - ComboBox
This is successful for the first row. However each row afterwards is ...
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Layout problems with Java Swing Tools
I am trying to make a simple GUI registration code window, that has a text to enter the code, and a button to verify if the code entered is right or wrong. Exactly like this image :
So I tried to do ...
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