Re: JLabel property - setBounds

From:
Sriram <sxb4545@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.gui
Date:
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:06:29 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<dad0bb60-8b6f-4663-8c77-53b4246d8a2c@z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com>
On Sep 15, 11:28 pm, RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBr...@spamweary.invalid>
wrote:

Sriram wrote:

Yes What I am trying to say in my previous mail is this:

L1 L2 L3 L4
TF1 TF2 TF3 TF4 Add

When "Add" is clicked, becomes this:

(No label here the above label remains for this....)
TF5 TF6 TF7 TF8 Add

TF9 TF10 TF11 TF12 Add

and so on....


i.e.

Initial state
+-------------------------+
| L1 L2 L3 L4 |
| TF01 TF02 TF03 TF04 Add |
+-------------------------+

After Add clicked
+-------------------------+
| L1 L2 L3 L4 |
| TF01 TF02 TF03 TF04 |
| TF05 TF06 TF07 TF08 Add |
+-------------------------+

After Add clicked again
+-------------------------+
| L1 L2 L3 L4 |
| TF01 TF02 TF03 TF04 |
| TF05 TF06 TF07 TF08 |
| TF09 TF10 TF11 TF12 Add |
+-------------------------+

You should be able to work out how to change my example that added
columns and make it add rows instead.

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Your requirements are very odd. Are you sure you have not misunderstood
what your professor wanted?

Maybe he wanted something like ...

+---------------------------------+
| Name Age Kg $$$ |
| [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] (Add) |
| +-----------------------------+ |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| +-----------------------------+ |
+---------------------------------+

Enter some data
+---------------------------------+
| Name Age Kg Pts |
| [Mary] [ 18] [65] [987] (Add) |
| +-----------------------------+ |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| +-----------------------------+ |
+---------------------------------+

Click "Add"
+---------------------------------+
| Name Age Kg Pts |
| [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] (Add) |
| +-----------------------------+ |
| | 1: Mary 18 65 987 | |
| | | |
| | | |
| +-----------------------------+ |
+---------------------------------+

Enter some data
+---------------------------------+
| Name Age Kg Pts |
| [Eric] [ 22] [80] [233] (Add) |
| +-----------------------------+ |
| | 1: Mary 18 65 987 | |
| | | |
| | | |
| +-----------------------------+ |
+---------------------------------+

Click "Add"
+---------------------------------+
| Name Age Kg Pts |
| [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] (Add) |
| +-----------------------------+ |
| | 1: Mary 18 65 987 | |
| | 2: Eric 22 80 233 | |
| | | |
| +-----------------------------+ |
+---------------------------------+

Which would be more conventional.

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Hi

 The conventional approach is the one I looked at and it is what seems
more desirable ... However I tried experimenting with your program to
change the addColumn to the addRow method

private void addRows () {

constraints.gridx=fields.size();
constraints.gridy = 0;
panel.add(new JLabel(labelText), constraints); // I took this out
because I didn't want the labels to appear repeatedly when user
clicks ..
JTextField field = new JTextField(6);
JTextField field1 = new JTextField(6);
JTextField field2 = new JTextField(6);
constraints.gridy = 1;
constraints.gridy=1;
panel.add(field, constraints);
panel.add(field1, constraints);
panel.add(field2, constraints);
fields.add(field); // so we can later retrieve content
fields.add(field1);
fields.add(field2);
panel.revalidate(); // redo layout for extra column
}

However the problem is that it still keeps adding one textfield though
columnwise and not rowwise...Besides I removed the InputDialog as that
was not needed for repeated and new labels in the main program (The
actionevent method)

I couldn't figure why it kept on adding columnwise and not rows ??

Thanks

Sriram

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