Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John B. Matthews" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: Netbeans Free Design to Absolute Layout Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 12:43:26 -0500 Organization: The Wasteland Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 17:43:25 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d17dee34624b7b363488e8f2f4ab0076"; logging-data="14478"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18xMfFVmMttJeMcpOMLhZ+vVJvL4CYLR+Q=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:wqeOLy3RDnBvdPnm+XYGkG7oqfE= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.help:2891 On 2/4/14, 11:32 PM, galt_57@hotmail.com wrote: > I've had trouble with Netbeans layout in the past but I just had a situation where Swing textboxes jumped across the panel in response to a textbox input when the program was running. What the heck can cause that? I switched to "Absolute Layout" mode and have not seen it happen again. Isn't there some other way to "lock down" an assisted layout? Thanks. One perennial problem is failing to pack() the enclosing Window before invoking its setVisible() method. -- John B. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot com