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Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 260

BorderLayout has large gap in the center

I am writing a program that is meant to use a BorderLayout with two button on the West and East side of the window. Somehow, there is a large gap in the center. Is there any way that I can eliminate this gap and have the two buttons be tangent with each other? Below I have attached my code. Any help is appreciated :).

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class HON extends Applet {

Button p1;
Button p2;
BorderLayout layout;

public void init() {
    layout = new BorderLayout();
    setLayout(layout);

    p1 = new Button("text");
    p2 = new Button("text");

    add(p1, BorderLayout.WEST);
    add(p2, BorderLayout.EAST);

}

public void stop() {

}}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 981

Answers (1)

Alerra
Alerra

Reputation: 1519

BorderLayout is doing exactly what the name implies - putting stuff on the border. This is the reason for the gap in the center. If you want to have something that has 2 buttons side by side, I would recommend the GridLayout for its simplicity. Code would go something like this:

GridLayout layout = new GridLayout(1,2); // Or (2,1), depending on how you want orientation
JPanel pane = new JPanel();
pane.setLayout(layout);
pane.add(leftButton); // Where leftButton is the JButton (or other swing component) on the left
pane.add(rightButton); // Same goes for the right JButton
// Then add your JPanel to the Frame and all that jazz below.

This should do what you want if I understand your question correctly. Notice also that I am using Swing components because they are still maintained by Java. Leave a comment/question if you need any other help with this.

EDIT: Notice in the comments that MadProgrammer suggested using the GridBagLayout. This is more powerful/versatile than plain vanilla GridLayout, but also is a bit harder to learn, so you can sort of take your pick as to which you want to do.

Upvotes: 3

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