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Week 9 Examples GUI - Layout - Examples

This document discusses different layout managers in Java's graphical user interface (GUI): 1. FlowLayout places components from left to right in added order, starting new rows when rows are filled. 2. BorderLayout divides the container into five regions and centers the largest component. 3. GridLayout arranges components into a grid with a specified number of rows and columns. 4. BoxLayout stacks or places components in a row depending on the axis parameter. 5. Look and feel refers to the customizable appearance and behavior of GUI components.

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Week 9 Examples GUI - Layout - Examples

This document discusses different layout managers in Java's graphical user interface (GUI): 1. FlowLayout places components from left to right in added order, starting new rows when rows are filled. 2. BorderLayout divides the container into five regions and centers the largest component. 3. GridLayout arranges components into a grid with a specified number of rows and columns. 4. BoxLayout stacks or places components in a row depending on the axis parameter. 5. Look and feel refers to the customizable appearance and behavior of GUI components.

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Graphical User Interface

Layout Examples
Flow Layout
• Components placed from left to right in order
added
– When a row is filled, a new row is started
• Lines can be centered, left-justified or right
justified (see FlowLayout constructor)
• Add layout as below:
– JPanel p1=new JPanel();
– p1.setLayout(new FlowLayout (FlowLayout.CENTER)); //center justified
Border Layout
• Divides container in 5 portions :
– NORTH SOUTH, EAST, WEST and CENTER.
– Also called PAGE_START, PAGE_END, LINE_START, LINE_END and
CENTER.
• The center area gets as much of the available space as possible.
• The other areas expand only as much as necessary to fill all
available space
• Specify the component's location as one of the arguments to
the add method.
– JPanel p1=new JPanel();
– P1.add(anyComponent, BorderLayout.LINE_END)
GridLayout
• Components are placed in grid pattern
• Number of rows & columns specified in
constructor
• Grid is filled left-to-right, then top-to- bottom
– JPanel p1=new JPanel();int row=2,col=5;
– p1.setLayout(new GridLayout(row,col,gap,gap));
public class GridExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("GridLayout Demo");
JButton btn1 = new JButton("Button 1");
JButton btn2 = new JButton("Button 2");
JButton btn3 = new JButton("Button 3");
JButton btn4 = new JButton("Button 4");
JButton btn5 = new JButton("Button 5");
// create grid layout with 3 rows , 2 columns with horizontal // and vertical gap set to 10
JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(3,2,10,10));
// add buttons to the panel
panel.add(btn1); panel.add(btn2);
panel.add(btn3); panel.add(btn4);
panel.add(btn5);

frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setSize(300,150);
frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
class GridLayoutTest extends JFrame{

GridLayoutTest(){
setTitle("GridLayout Test");
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JPanel myPane=new JPanel();
myPane.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,1));
myPane.add(getFieldPanel());
myPane.add(getButtonPanel());
setVisible(true);
this.getContentPane().add(myPane);
this.pack();

}
public static void main(String[] a) {
new GridLayoutTest();
}
private static JPanel getFieldPanel() {
JPanel p = new JPanel(new GridLayout(4,2));
p.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Details"));

p.add(new JLabel("Name:",SwingConstants.RIGHT));
p.add(new JTextField(16));
p.add(new JLabel("System:",SwingConstants.RIGHT));
Box Layout
• BoxLayout either stacks its components on top
of each other or places them in a row
– JPanel p1=new JPanel();
– //contentpane, layout type X_AXIS or Y_AXIS
– p1.setLayout(new BoxLayout (p1,BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
Look and Feel
• The architecture of Swing is designed with
changeable "look and feel" (L&F) of your
application's GUI
• "Look" refers to the appearance of GUI
widgets (more formally, JComponents) and
"feel" refers to the way the widgets behave.

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