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by **Karl** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:42 am

Dear Folks,

I do want a Swing JButton array,
organized using a Swing BoxLayout,
have the same hight. In ohter words
all JButtons should have the same
hight as their JPanel container.

First there is a panel (BoxLaout)
then there is a rigit, 9 JButtons, and a final rigit.
The JPanel has a prefered hight of 55,
and I want that the JButtons to also have
the hight of 55 pixels. I changed min and prefered size
but those changes have no effect?

Thanks in advance,
Karl

by **Eric Clayberg** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:54 am

Please post your complete example.

by **Karl** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 2:09 am

O.K. here comes a small example,
if you switch between Y-Axis and X-Axis
you see a difference. With Y-Axis all the buttons
have the same size (same width),
with X-Axis all the buttons do not have the same
height. The same behavior I do see when I compose
the GUI using the Swing Designer. I am looking for
a way to use the X-Axis BoxLayout for a sequence of
JToggleButtons where the buttons are allowed to have
different widths while having the exactly same height:

Code: Select all: import java.awt.Component; import java.awt.Container; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JComponent; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.BoxLayout; public class SameHight { public static void main( String args[] ) { JFrame frame = new JFrame("Box Example"); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); Container contentPane = frame.getContentPane(); JPanel panel = new JPanel(); // panel.setLayout( new BoxLayout( panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS )); panel.setLayout( new BoxLayout( panel, BoxLayout.X_AXIS )); contentPane.add(panel); JButton b1 = new JButton("<html><body>Button 1</html></body>"); panel.add(b1); JButton b2 = new JButton("<html><body>Button 2<br>Spring Water</html></body>"); panel.add(b2); JButton b3 = new JButton("<html><body>Button 3</html></body>"); panel.add(b3); JButton b4 = new JButton("<html><body>Button 4<br>Fountain Water</html></body>"); panel.add(b4); JButton b5 = new JButton("<html><body>Button 5</html></body>"); panel.add(b5); JButton b6 = new JButton("<html><body>Button 6<br>Moutain Spring Water</html></body>"); panel.add(b6); frame.pack(); frame.setVisible(true); } }

by **Eric Clayberg** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:44 am

Try setting the maximum size of each button to match the tallest button. For example,

Code: Select all: b1.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(0, 37));

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