CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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RobD
RobD

Reputation: 455

JavaFX Spanning Columns with TextArea

I have a simple JavaFX application that has several textfields and 1 textarea in a gridpane, problem i'm having is that if place the textarea under any of the textfields they get resized to the size of the textarea. I need a way to make the textarea span multiple columns of the grid without affecting the other controls. this is how I am adding the controls:

grid.setRowIndex(lblDesc, 3);
grid.setColumnIndex(lblDesc, 2);
grid.setRowIndex(tfDesc, 4);
grid.setColumnIndex(tfDesc,2);    
grid.getChildren().addAll(lblDesc, tfDesc);

Thanks Rick

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3168

Answers (2)

Eric Nord
Eric Nord

Reputation: 4885

I'd recommend root.add(element, col, row, colSpan, rowSpan)

Where root 

GridPane root = new GridPane();
root.setAlignment(Pos.TOP_LEFT);
root.setHgap(10);
root.setVgap(10);
root.setPadding(new Insets(50, 50, 50, 50));

//Add each element to the GridPane
//.add(element, column, row ,column span, row span)  span must be >0

//row 0
root.add(sourceDirLabel, 0, 0, 2, 1);

//row1
root.add(sourceDirText,0, 1, 3, 1);
root.add(sourceDirBtn, 3, 1);

//row 2
root.add(outputDirLabel, 0, 2, 2, 1);

//row3
root.add(outputDirText,0, 3, 3, 1);
root.add(outputDirBtn, 3, 3);

//row4
root.add(runBtn, 0 , 4);

Upvotes: 2

Puce
Puce

Reputation: 38152

Did you have a look at the API and tried one of the methods which support spanning columns?

http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2.0/api/javafx/scene/layout/GridPane.html

Upvotes: 0

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