GrigBagLayout Customizing Default Insets

[chrisR]

How do I customize the default Insets of Components for GridBagLayout?
This was a feature of a previous version.
I can't find the customization Dialog of Insets for GridBagLayout.

Kind regards
chrisR

[Konstantin.Scheglov]

Why do you want this?
In new version we automatically manage GridBagLayout insets to produce gaps between columns and rows.
So, use GBL just as normal grid and don't care about insets.

[chrisR]

Nice feature
Thus the default gap between columns and row is 5.
How do I change the default gap to 2,3 or 6 or...

[Eric Clayberg]

Give this a try using the latest Swing Designer v7.1 build.

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[chrisR]

Thanks,

it works.
Now, I can customize the gap between columns and rows.

However, a single Component on a Container with GBL has zero insets (for top, left, bottom, right)
It is nice to have this gap between a column and the border of the container automatically. (row and border respectively)

Kind Regards
Chris

[Eric Clayberg]

Whether a container should have a border inset seems best left to the user on a case-by-case basis. I can think of lots of cases where I would not want a border inset like that.

The better way to establish margin borders around a container when using any layout manager is just to assign an EmptyBorder to the container with whatever insets you wish.

[chrisR]

O.K. this will do.

[Eric Clayberg]

Glad that works for you.