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Re: Aligned elements in a JComboBox

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On 05/17/2011 09:42 AM, Thomas Richter wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> the problem at hand is how to align individual components that are part
> of a JComboBox.
>
> The JComboBox uses a custom Renderer to render its contents, and each
> content consists of two strings of variable size, arranged in a JPanel.
> The getListCellRendererComponent() of the renderer now returns the
> JPanel containing the two components.
>
> So far, so good. This works.
>
> The problem is that the sizes of the two components differ througout the
> items of the JComboBox, which means that the elements within the JList
> in the JCombobox (or rather, its JList rendering the non-editable items)
> are not aligned to each other. Of course they can't, they are individual
> JPanels each with its own layout manager, and thus do not know anything
> on each other.
>
> Needless to say, this looks visually very unattractive.
>
> So what can I do about this? I have a JComboBox with a very complex
> layout and the requirement that each entry necessarily is a pair of data
> types of various sizes. How can I make the elements be aware of each
> other and have a common layout for all of them?
>
> Illustration:
>
> +----------------------------------------------+
> | foofoo | barbarbarbarbarbarbarbar |
> +----------------------------------------------+
> | foofoofoofoofoofoofoo | bar |
> +----------------------------------------------+
>
> This is how the JComboBox currently renders. But I want it
> laid out such that the separator between the two elements forming one
> entry of it are underneath each other.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Greetings,
> Thomas

Figure out the largest size of your data in each field and lay out all 
the elements with the same width and layout manager.

-- 

Knute Johnson
s/knute/nospam/

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Aligned elements in a JComboBox Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2011-05-17 18:42 +0200
  Re: Aligned elements in a JComboBox Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-05-17 09:49 -0700
    Re: Aligned elements in a JComboBox Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2011-05-17 21:41 +0200
      Re: Aligned elements in a JComboBox Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-05-17 18:00 -0700
        Re: Aligned elements in a JComboBox Bent C Dalager <bcd@pvv.ntnu.no> - 2011-05-18 09:13 +0000
          Re: Aligned elements in a JComboBox "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-18 07:56 -0400
  Re: Aligned elements in a JComboBox Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-05-19 10:29 -0700

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