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Re: Aligned elements in a JComboBox

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From	Bent C Dalager <bcd@pvv.ntnu.no>
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Subject	Re: Aligned elements in a JComboBox
Date	Wed, 18 May 2011 09:13:11 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2011-05-18, Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> wrote:
>
> (...) You might consider extending that though or write your 
> own layout manager.

While my own personal approach to component layout is to take out my
very big Layout Mallet and repeatedly smash it into GridBagLayout
until it does what I want(*), I think the intent of the Swing (or even
AWT) designers was that people would be writing their own specialized
layouts when they have special needs.

So presumably this is actually a practical thing to do. I would
definitely look into it for a situation like this.

Cheers,
	Bent D

* There probably isn't a layout mallet big enough to make
  GridBagLayout work for the problem at hand though.
-- 
Bent Dalager - bcd@pvv.org - http://www.pvv.org/~bcd
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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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