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Joseph Chien
Joseph Chien

Reputation: 47

How to make the JTextField smaller, not to fill up the whole space?

Here I have a simple buildPanel method for the input area. I try to use GridLayout(7,1), but the first 4 JTextField seem to fill up the entire space of its block, and that looks quite ugly.

Is there any way to change them back to its normal size?

private void buildInputPenal() 
{
    dateField = new JTextField(10); //dateField should be changed to something else later
    fNameField = new JTextField(15);
    lNameField = new JTextField(15);
    pledgeField = new JTextField(10);

    charityRB1 = new JRadioButton(Charity[0]);
    charityRB2 = new JRadioButton(Charity[1]);
    charityRB3 = new JRadioButton(Charity[2]);

    radioButtonGroup = new ButtonGroup();
    radioButtonGroup.add(charityRB1);
    radioButtonGroup.add(charityRB2);
    radioButtonGroup.add(charityRB3);

    charityRB1.addActionListener(new RadioButtonListener());
    charityRB2.addActionListener(new RadioButtonListener());
    charityRB3.addActionListener(new RadioButtonListener());

    inputPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(7,1));

    inputPanel.add(dateField);
    inputPanel.add(fNameField);
    inputPanel.add(lNameField);
    inputPanel.add(pledgeField);
    inputPanel.add(charityRB1);
    inputPanel.add(charityRB2);
    inputPanel.add(charityRB3);
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 789

Answers (1)

MadProgrammer
MadProgrammer

Reputation: 347184

Don't use GridLayout. GridLayout creates an even set of cells for each component (that is they get the same amount of space).

Instead, consider using something GridBagLayout instead

See How to Use GridLayout and How to Use GridBagLayout for more details

Upvotes: 1

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