Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniele Futtorovic Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Is there a method to update control size? Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 19:22:43 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <7a7e726d-051d-4f17-93ac-3dabdde80894@googlegroups.com> <959c54c7-9fb9-4bba-93c9-6983553999bf@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 17:23:55 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: h2725194.stratoserver.net; posting-host="ac2fb51c39738a4e35109bf9466fc77b"; logging-data="12075"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/WV0lgebpXcZNT0jMoo2Gk" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:zFDDngfqhJ3Da1FQRATvjcC5BV4= In-Reply-To: <959c54c7-9fb9-4bba-93c9-6983553999bf@googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Language: en-GB X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 180531-0, 05/31/2018), Outbound message Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:38316 On 2018-05-31 18:42, Eric Douglas wrote: > On Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 11:28:43 AM UTC-4, Eric Sosman wrote: >> Right here is where I simply must ask: "Why?" Why not just put >> the scroll pane wherever you were going to put the label? (Or, why >> not put the label-plus-scroll as the content of another label, and >> put that as the content of yet another label, and ...?) >> > Because the JLabel is a custom class which wraps every control type, which gives them all a common border, which turns blue if they have focus. This also makes each control a single control where they may otherwise be multiple controls. ie a US phone number control has an area code input, a prefix input, a suffix input, and text labels to show the ( ) - mask. One border shows around all of them. Putting a single control like this JScrollPane in such a JPanel is to avoid duplicating logic like the border objects and focus listeners. > Because the JLabel is a custom class which wraps every control type > Putting a single control like this JScrollPane in *such a* JPanel Which one is it then? JLabel or JPanel? -- DF.