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Ruben de Groot
Ruben de Groot

Reputation: 13

Swing components are too small

So I have this code in my contructor, my class extends JFrame:

    super("myBucketList");

    i = new Item();


    //controls panel
    controls = new JPanel();

    itemField = new JTextField();
    itemField.addActionListener(new ListenAction());

    delField = new JTextField();
    delField.addActionListener(new ListenAction());

    listArea = new JTextArea();
    listArea.setEditable(false);

    controls.add(delField);
    controls.add(itemField);


    //txtareaPanel
    textareaPanel = new JPanel();

    listScroll = new JScrollPane();
    listScroll.setViewportView(listArea);

    textareaPanel.add(listScroll);


    //tab1 panel
    tab1 = new JPanel();
    tab1.setLayout(new BorderLayout());

    tab1.add(controls, BorderLayout.NORTH);
    tab1.add(textareaPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);


    add(tab1);

    setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    setSize(500,200);
    setVisible(true);

Now if I run my application the components are really small, how to fix it?

Here is a screenshot of the situation/problem: http://snag.gy/yjbUl.jpg

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Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 480

Answers (2)

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 1

If you are using jdk 8 then keep it but download the jre 9 and your widgets etc will be of normal size. This solves the problem!

Upvotes: 0

Frakcool
Frakcool

Reputation: 11143

Just call the constructor with columns, see here

For example:

itemField = new JTextField(10); //Or the number of cols you want

Or call JTextField#setColumns()

itemField.setColumns(10); //Or the number of columns you want

For the JTextArea call this constructor as follows:

listArea = new JTextArea("", 10, 10); //Text, rows, cols.

Or again use JTextArea#setRows() and JTextArea#setColumns() as follows:

listArea.setColumns(10);
listArea.setRows(10);

That should fix your problem.

Upvotes: 2

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