Box.createHorizontalGlue()

[EricWohlstadter]

Does the Swing Designer parser understand the factory method "javax.swing.Box.createHorizontalGlue()"?

I am trying to align a JMenu on the right-hand side of a JMenuBar with SwingDesigner. Usually I do this with a sequence of statements such as:

menuBar.add(fileMenu);
menuBar.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
menuBar.add(helpMenu);

This has the effect that the fileMenu is aligned on the left and the helpMenu is aligned on the right. I can't get this to work in Swing Designer, do you know an alternate way to achieve the same effect? Cheers,

Eric Wohlstadter
University of British Columbia

[Eric Clayberg]

Does the Swing Designer parser understand the factory method "javax.swing.Box.createHorizontalGlue()"?

Yes, in BoxLayouts. In fact, Swing Designer generates code like that when a horizontal glue element is used in a Box layout.

I am trying to align a JMenu on the right-hand side of a JMenuBar with SwingDesigner. Usually I do this with a sequence of statements such as:

menuBar.add(fileMenu);
menuBar.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
menuBar.add(helpMenu);

This has the effect that the fileMenu is aligned on the left and the helpMenu is aligned on the right. I can't get this to work in Swing Designer, do you know an alternate way to achieve the same effect?

Designer does not support adding or rendering glue elements in a menu.

You can add that code manually, and it will work at runtime.

[Alexander.Mitin]

The Designer now correctly renders this code pattern at design-time.

[Eric Clayberg]

Here's a screen shot showing rendering for the glue element in the menubar at design time and it preview mode...