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Re: Is there a method to update control size?

Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Date 2018-05-31 10:55 -0700
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Subject Re: Is there a method to update control size?
From Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com>

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On Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 1:46:37 PM UTC-4, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
> > Am I mistaken that JLabel and JPanel are often interchangeable?
> 
> In my view, you are. A JLabel is for displaying text (and an optional
> icon). A JPanel is a generic container. You should never have to add any
> children to a JLabel. Your custom wrapper should extend JPanel instead.
> Then everything else you wrote would make sense.
> 
> -- 
> DF.

So far it appears to be working in this usage.  I don't recall if I specifically chose JLabel for a reason.  I'll try JPanel.

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Is there a method to update control size? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-31 07:34 -0700
  Re: Is there a method to update control size? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-05-31 17:20 +0200
  Re: Is there a method to update control size? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-05-31 11:28 -0400
    Re: Is there a method to update control size? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-31 09:42 -0700
      Re: Is there a method to update control size? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-05-31 19:22 +0200
        Re: Is there a method to update control size? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-31 10:38 -0700
          Re: Is there a method to update control size? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-05-31 19:45 +0200
            Re: Is there a method to update control size? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-31 10:55 -0700
              Re: Is there a method to update control size? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-05-31 20:05 +0200
                Re: Is there a method to update control size? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2018-06-03 15:00 -0500
                Re: Is there a method to update control size? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-06-04 02:25 +0200
      Re: Is there a method to update control size? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-05-31 15:55 -0400
        Re: Is there a method to update control size? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2018-06-03 15:02 -0500

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