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Re: What do you think of my CropImage class

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On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 2:24:43 PM UTC-4, Eric Sosman wrote:
>      When (non-null) layout managers are in use, pack() causes them all
> to do their thing, establishing the positions and sizes of the contents
> they manage.  If you're using absolute positioning instead of layout
> managers, I suppose pack() can be dispensed with.  ("I suppose," because
> I've never been 100% confident that I understand why both pack() and
> validate() exist; there may be things going on that I don't know about.)
> 
>      ... but I'd use it anyhow, because even if *my* component uses no
> layout manager, something I embed in it might.  For example, a JSpinner
> has assorted sub-bits and sub-pieces, uses its own layout manager to
> size and position them.  I'm not sure what happens if you try to
> display a JSpinner that's never been pack()ed; it might well depend on
> the look-and-feel in force.

I use some tricks in my API to get things to work right.  My Swing controls are normally embedded in a window created by a different API (http://documentation.basis.com/BASISHelp/WebHelp/winmethods3/bbjwindow_addwrappedjcomponent.htm) with their absolute positioning.  I wrap each of my controls, adding it to a focus border control which then gets added to their window.  My focus border is a JLabel with some default constructor methods which add a focus listener to highlight the focused control in blue.  I pass each control into the constructor of the focus border which calls setOpaque(false) then setLayout(new GridLayout()), then adds the control to itself, then calls revalidate().

I do also have a JSpinner control which works fine with this.  My custom JSpinner (made to handle integers) has a custom setMaximum method which calls ((NumberFormatter) ((JSpinner.NumberEditor) super.getEditor()).getTextField().getFormatter()).setMaximum(value) then calls it's ((JSpinner.NumberEditor) super.getEditor()).setPreferredSize(dimension) using a hard width and height calculated from String.valueOf(value).length() and the width and height of a character of the current (fixed width) font.

For my standalone test programs I never use JFrame.  I use JDialog for my top levels windows which allows passing a window into another window, disabling the first window until the second window is closed, and also allows removing window decorations as needed.

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What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-20 09:15 +0200
  Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-20 11:12 +0200
  Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-20 10:02 -0700
    Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-20 21:14 +0200
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 12:50 -0700
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 12:11 +0200
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 14:19 +0200
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Qu0ll <qu0ll64@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 05:53 +1000
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-20 13:46 -0700
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 13:59 -0700
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-20 15:40 -0700
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 12:27 +0200
            Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 05:17 -0700
              Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 17:43 +0200
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 08:59 -0700
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 19:10 +0200
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-23 21:47 -0400
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 04:51 -0700
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-25 15:01 -0700
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-25 21:06 -0400
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-25 21:09 -0400
            Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-07-21 15:44 +0100
              Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 17:46 +0200
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 12:25 +0200
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 14:16 +0200
    Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 12:05 +0200
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 13:23 +0200
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-21 07:58 -0700
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 11:13 -0400
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 18:12 +0200
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 17:49 +0200
  Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 11:58 +0200
    Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 09:35 -0400
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 09:03 -0700
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 12:39 -0400
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 18:07 +0200
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-07-21 17:23 +0100
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 12:56 -0400
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 19:03 +0200
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 10:25 -0700
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 14:24 -0400
            Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 11:54 -0700
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 20:25 +0200
            Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 15:37 -0400
              Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-21 21:30 +0000
              Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 23:52 +0200
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 20:35 -0400
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-22 04:21 +0200
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-21 22:44 -0400
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-22 10:27 +0200
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-22 10:47 +0000
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 05:16 -0700
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-07-22 15:10 +0100
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-22 07:47 -0700
                Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 10:21 -0700
    Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2016-07-21 08:30 -0700
      Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 18:19 +0200
        Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 10:18 -0700
          Re: What do you think of my CropImage class Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-07-21 20:12 +0200

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