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Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ?

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On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:28:44 +0100, Olivier Scalbert wrote:

> On 11/13/2011 03:38 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> That's nothing to do with the layout. It aligns the objects you're
>> laying out by doing its best with the sizes of the objects you created.
>> 
>> JButton inherits size setting methods (setMaximumSize, setMinimumSize,
>> setPreferredSize) from JComponent. Use them to control button size.
>> 
> Perhaps I have not understand, but with the following code, buttons are
> not well aligned:
> 
They aligned as I'd expect: 
- btnPanel is sized to contain the buttons and nothing else
  and is placed as you asked, on the east side of the content pane.
 
- The buttons have their centres aligned.

I don't understand what you mean by "not well aligned":

- If you want the buttons to appear as other than a close-packed block,
  take a look at "How to use BoxLayout" in the Java tutorial. It is also
  referenced from the the class description in the BoxLayout javadocs
  entry.

- If you want all buttons to be the same size, use a custom class in
  place of JButton:

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

class MyButton extends JButton 
{

   public MyButton(String label) 
{
      super(label);

      Dimension d = new Dimension(120, 30);      
      setMinimumSize(d);
      setMaximumSize(d);
      setPreferredSize(d);
   }   
}


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How to align swing buttons vertically ? Olivier Scalbert <olivier.scalbert@algosyn.com> - 2011-11-13 11:30 +0100
  Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-13 12:50 +0000
    Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ? Olivier Scalbert <olivier.scalbert@algosyn.com> - 2011-11-13 14:21 +0100
      Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-13 14:38 +0000
        Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ? Olivier Scalbert <olivier.scalbert@algosyn.com> - 2011-11-13 18:28 +0100
          Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-11-13 11:01 -0800
            Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ? Olivier Scalbert <olivier.scalbert@algosyn.com> - 2011-11-13 21:17 +0100
              Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-11-13 16:16 -0800
          Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-13 19:17 +0000
            Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ? Olivier Scalbert <olivier.scalbert@algosyn.com> - 2011-11-13 21:01 +0100
              Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-11-13 17:33 -0500
          Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-13 11:03 -0800
            Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-11-13 16:28 -0800
  Re: How to align swing buttons vertically ? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-13 09:27 -0800

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