JPanel Padding in Java
Set an EmptyBorder around your JPanel. Example: JPanel p =new JPanel(); p.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(10, 10, 10, 10));
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Newline in JLabel
Surround the string with <html></html> and break the lines with <br/>. JLabel l = new JLabel(“<html>Hello World!<br/>blahblahblah</html>”, SwingConstants.CENTER);
How to change JFrame icon [duplicate]
Create a new ImageIcon object like this: ImageIcon img = new ImageIcon(pathToFileOnDisk); Then set it to your JFrame with setIconImage(): myFrame.setIconImage(img.getImage()); Also checkout setIconImages() which takes a List instead.
Best GUI designer for eclipse? [closed]
Window Builder Pro is a great GUI Designer for eclipse and is now offered for free by google.
error upon assigning Layout: BoxLayout can’t be shared
Your problem is that you’re creating a BoxLayout for a JFrame (this), but setting it as the layout for a JPanel (getContentPane()). Try: getContentPane().setLayout( new BoxLayout(getContentPane(), BoxLayout.PAGE_AXIS) );
What GUI libraries are the JetBrains using?
IntelliJ IDEA is a pure Java Swing application. All the custom components like editor tabs are created manually, no third-party libraries are used for this. You can find all the details by looking at the IntelliJ IDEA Community Source code.
JFrame in full screen Java
Add: frame.setExtendedState(JFrame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH); frame.setUndecorated(true); frame.setVisible(true);
How to best position Swing GUIs?
To my eye, a GUI in the middle of the screen looks so.. “splash-screen’ish”. I keep waiting for them to disappear and the real GUI to appear! Since Java 1.5 we’ve had access to Window.setLocationByPlatform(boolean). which.. Sets whether this Window should appear at the default location for the native windowing system or at the current … Read more
GUI not working after rewriting to MVC
As you’ve discovered, the Model–View–Controller pattern is no panacea, but it offers some advantages. Rooted in MVC, the Swing separable model architecture is discussed in A Swing Architecture Overview. Based on this outline, the following example shows an MVC implementation of a much simpler game that illustrates similar principles. Note that the Model manages a … Read more
How to present a simple alert message in java?
I’ll be the first to admit Java can be very verbose, but I don’t think this is unreasonable: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, “My Goodness, this is so concise”); If you statically import javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog using: import static javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog; This further reduces to showMessageDialog(null, “This is even shorter”);