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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What do you think of my CropImage class
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 21:30:08 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:37:55 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote:

> On 7/21/2016 2:25 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> [...]
>> I just have one little problem. At the moment I do:
>>         crop.setBounds(      10, imageHeight + 10,  80, 30);
>>         load.setBounds(     110, imageHeight + 10,  80, 30);
>>         imageInfo.setBounds( 10, imageHeight + 50, 500, 30);
>>         selectInfo.setBounds(10, imageHeight + 90, 500, 30);
>>         setSize(imageWidth + 10, imageHeight + 160);
>>
>> because title and things like that takes room, but I do not know how
>> much. How can I retrieve these values? Then the application looks a
>> little better and I do not have to be afraid it will not be OK on other
>> platforms.
> 
>      Possibly useful as a starting point:
> 
> 	Dimension screenSize =
> 	    Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
> 
> (Disclaimer: I've only used this on single-screen machines; you need to
> work harder if there are multiple displays.)
>
Same here. I specify major component sizes, i.e. JPanel, etc.  as 
percentages of the screen size returned by the Toolkit. The only 
components I specify in pixels are text-related components, where the 
component size determines whether the text gets cropped. I suppose I 
should work back the other way by basing the component size on the size 
and font used by the text it displays, but so far I've hand-tuned this 
and found that it has worked acceptably on different-sized screens, but 
maybe I've just been lucky.


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