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Steve's a D
Steve's a D

Reputation: 3821

How to set the width of a JTable

I have a JTable in a JScrollPane. I want the minimum width to be around 600 as its a wide table. I tried setting the minimum size on the table, the scroll pane, and the panel its self. The size doesn't change at all, what am I missing? Its hard to google this because all that comes up is how to set the width of the columns.

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Here is the code:

class SearchResults extends JPanel {

/**
 * Create the panel.
 */
public SearchResults() {
    setMinimumSize(new Dimension(640, 480));
    String[][] data= new String[][] {
            {null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "VIEW BUTTON"},
            {null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "VIEW BUTTON"}};
    String[] col = new String[] {
            "Last Name", "First Name", "Middle Initial", "Phone Number", "Email", "Project Title", "Project Description", "Amount", "Date Approved", "Date Completed", "College", "Faculty Mentor Name", "Co Grantee", "Major", "Travel Required", "Travel Purpose", "Travel Cost", "Travel Start Date", "Travel End Date", "View"};

      JTable table = new JTable(data,col);
      table.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(600,200));
      JTableHeader header = table.getTableHeader();
      JScrollPane pane = new JScrollPane(table);
      pane.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(600, 23));
      table.setAutoResizeMode(JTable.AUTO_RESIZE_OFF);
      add(pane);
}

}

And here is where I add it to the JFrame:

public class Test extends JFrame
{

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Test test = new Test();
        test.run();
    }

    public Test()
    {
        super("JAVA TEST!");
    }

    private void run()
    {
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        SearchResults resultsPanel = new SearchResults();
        resultsPanel.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(600,200));
        add(resultsPanel);
        setSize(800,600);
        setVisible(true);
    }
}

Upvotes: 7

Views: 30235

Answers (3)

kleopatra
kleopatra

Reputation: 51535

There are several problems:

  • (as already mentioned in my comment) the FlowLayout of the inner panel always sizes its children to their respective prefSize
  • a table's min/pref/max width is calculated from the sum of the respective column sizes
  • a table is-a Scrollable and as such publishes its preferredScrollableViewportSize (which is the size a surrounding JScrollPane uses to calculates its own prefSize)
  • the implementation of prefScrollable is ... lacking (to put it mildly) in that its hard-coded to something like 400 x 450 (or similar)

Consequestly, there are several screws to tweak (after removing all setXXSize calls :) )

  • make the panel use a BorderLayout: the scrollPane will fill the complete area if the frame is resized.
  • extend the JTable to return something reasonable for prefScrollableViewportSize (f.i. in terms of the pref number of visible columns/rows)

In code (and using JXTable of the SwingX project because it already has api for the second :-) )

String[][] data= new String[][] {
        {null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "VIEW BUTTON"},
        {null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "VIEW BUTTON"}};
String[] col = new String[] {
        "Last Name", "First Name", "Middle Initial", "Phone Number", 
        "Email", "Project Title", "Project Description", "Amount", 
        "Date Approved", "Date Completed", "College", "Faculty Mentor Name", 
        "Co Grantee", "Major", "Travel Required", "Travel Purpose", 
        "Travel Cost", "Travel Start Date", "Travel End Date", "View"};

 JXTable table = new JXTable(data,col);
 table.setVisibleColumnCount(10);
 table.setHorizontalScrollEnabled(true);
 JScrollPane pane = new JScrollPane(table);
 JComponent comp = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
 comp.add(pane);

Edit

To solve the 80% requirement (and a little teaser for MigLayout :-) )

// 80% with a minimum of 600 logical pixel:
MigLayout layout = new MigLayout("wrap 2, debug",
        "[600:pref, fill, grow][20%]");
JComponent comp = new JPanel(layout);
comp.add(pane, "spany");
comp.add(new JLabel("just something"));

Upvotes: 12

vels4j
vels4j

Reputation: 11298

Layout matters. IDE like Netbeans or Eclipse provides hands free layout design by drag and drop.

You can achieve even by code once you understand Swing layouts. Few most used layouts I'm mentioning here

BorderLayout
BoxLayout
FlowLayout
GridLayout

in yours, if you add panel.setLayout( new GridLayout(1,1));, table will get fixed within frame.

Also you need not extend JPanel or JFrame unless if you overwrite something or adding more stuff to frame. Practice to learn.

Upvotes: 0

SomeJavaGuy
SomeJavaGuy

Reputation: 7357

had some Problems with this stuff too. use the setPreferedSize(new Dimension(800,600)); too. this could solve your problem

Upvotes: 0

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