Re: Odd GUI behavior (Win

From	"Tandaina" <tandaina@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject	Re: Odd GUI behavior (Win
Message-ID	<1164635675.199676.91980@l39g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> (permalink)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
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Date	2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
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Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Tandaina wrote:
> The GUI code.  Look particularly for use of setSize()
> (a bad sign) setBounds() (a worse sign) setLayout(null)
> (hire somebody that knows how to write GUI's).
>
> Look also for *lack* of pack()/validate(), as that
> can *hide* problems that may not be apparent
> on one platform.

The folks who wrote this particular GUI are, I'm afraid, long gone.
I'm not a GUI expert but I'm learning. ;)  However I'm almost 100% sure
I've seen setBounds in more than one place in the code. Thanks for the
pointers and I KNOW pack is never getting used.  Ho boy, its gonna be a
long day.  ;)

Chris

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