Re: vertical BoxLayout, JLabel, and JButton and alignment

Andrew Thompson wrote:


I'm not the OP, Duane, but I think he means this:
Compile, run, resize it.
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import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

public class VerticalOddity {

     public static void main(String[] args) {
         SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
             public void run() {
                 new VerticalOddity();
             }
         });
     }

     VerticalOddity() {
         String[] list = {"apples", "pears", "oranges"};
         JComboBox box = new JComboBox(list);
         JButton button = new JButton("Button");
         JLabel label1 = new JLabel("label 1");
         JLabel label2 = new JLabel("label 2");

         // X marks the spot

         JPanel p = new JPanel();
         p.setLayout(new BoxLayout(p, BoxLayout.PAGE_AXIS));
         p.add(box);
         p.add(button);
         p.add(label1);
         p.add(label2);

         JFrame f = new JFrame("Vertical Layout Oddity");
         f.add(p);
         f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
         f.pack();
         f.setVisible(true);
     }

}
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Part of the answer is to add the following at spot "X" above
         JComponent[] cs = new JComponent[] {box,button,label1,label2};
         for (JComponent c: cs)
             c.setAlignmentX(Component.LEFT_ALIGNMENT);

However I'm a little intriuged at the eagerness of JComboBox to expand!