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From: Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ?
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Olivier Scalbert wrote:
> Perhaps I have not understand, but with the following code, buttons are
> not well aligned:
> 
> import java.awt.*;
> import javax.swing.*;
> 
> public class TestViewer {
> 
>     public static void main(String[] args) {
>         EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
>             public void run() {
>                 JFrame frame = new ViewerFrame();
>                 frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
>                 frame.setSize(800, 600);

Shouldn't you call 'pack()' right here?  Layouts often don't work well without it.

>                 frame.setVisible(true);
>             }
>         });
>     }
> }
> 
> class ViewerFrame extends JFrame {
> 
>     public ViewerFrame() {
>         getContentPane().add(new JPanel(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
>         getContentPane().add(createBtnPanel(), BorderLayout.EAST);
>     }
> 
>     private JPanel createBtnPanel() {
>         JPanel btnPanel = new JPanel();
> 
>         btnPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(btnPanel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
> 
>         btnPanel.add(new JButton("Button 1"));
>         btnPanel.add(new JButton("Button 2"));
>         btnPanel.add(new JButton("Long Button 3"));
>         btnPanel.add(new JButton("Button 4"));
>         btnPanel.add(new JButton("Button 5"));
> 
>         return btnPanel;
>     }
> }

-- 
Lew