Invisible components still take up space JPanel

Question

I have a series of components underneath each other in a JPanel set as a GridLayout. I need to temporarily hide the components but setVisible(false) doesn\'t cu

Answer 1

because there is still an empty gap where the components were.

Yes, GridLayout is not that smart. It just uses the total number of components to determine the number of row/columns.

Is there a quick and easy way to do this?

I would create a custom layout manager. Just copy the GridLayout code and make a couple of changes. The basic changes would be:

1. Override the ncomponents variable. Instead of just using the number of components on the panel you would need to loop thorugh all the components and count the visible ones.

2. In the layout code you would need to add an if (visible) check.

Edit:

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

public class InvisibleGridLayout implements LayoutManager, java.io.Serializable
{
    int hgap;
    int vgap;
    int rows;
    int cols;

    public InvisibleGridLayout() {
    this(1, 0, 0, 0);
    }

    public InvisibleGridLayout(int rows, int cols) {
    this(rows, cols, 0, 0);
    }

    public InvisibleGridLayout(int rows, int cols, int hgap, int vgap) {
    if ((rows == 0) && (cols == 0)) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("rows and cols cannot both be zero");
    }
    this.rows = rows;
    this.cols = cols;
    this.hgap = hgap;
    this.vgap = vgap;
    }

    public int getRows() {
    return rows;
    }

    public void setRows(int rows) {
    if ((rows == 0) && (this.cols == 0)) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("rows and cols cannot both be zero");
    }
    this.rows = rows;
    }

    public int getColumns() {
    return cols;
    }

    public void setColumns(int cols) {
    if ((cols == 0) && (this.rows == 0)) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("rows and cols cannot both be zero");
    }
    this.cols = cols;
    }

    public int getHgap() {
    return hgap;
    }

    public void setHgap(int hgap) {
    this.hgap = hgap;
    }

    public int getVgap() {
    return vgap;
    }

    public void setVgap(int vgap) {
    this.vgap = vgap;
    }

    public void addLayoutComponent(String name, Component comp) {
    }

    public void removeLayoutComponent(Component comp) {
    }

    public Dimension preferredLayoutSize(Container parent) {
      synchronized (parent.getTreeLock()) {
    Insets insets = parent.getInsets();
//  int ncomponents = parent.getComponentCount();
    int ncomponents = getVisibleComponents(parent);
    int nrows = rows;
    int ncols = cols;

    if (nrows > 0) {
        ncols = (ncomponents + nrows - 1) / nrows;
    } else {
        nrows = (ncomponents + ncols - 1) / ncols;
    }
    int w = 0;
    int h = 0;
//  for (int i = 0 ; i < ncomponents ; i++) {
    for (int i = 0 ; i < parent.getComponentCount(); i++) {
        Component comp = parent.getComponent(i);

        if (!comp.isVisible()) continue; // added

        Dimension d = comp.getPreferredSize();
        if (w < d.width) {
        w = d.width;
        }
        if (h < d.height) {
        h = d.height;
        }
    }

    Dimension d = new Dimension(insets.left + insets.right + ncols*w + (ncols-1)*hgap,
                 insets.top + insets.bottom + nrows*h + (nrows-1)*vgap);

    return d;
      }
    }

    public Dimension minimumLayoutSize(Container parent) {
      synchronized (parent.getTreeLock()) {
        Insets insets = parent.getInsets();
//  int ncomponents = parent.getComponentCount();
    int ncomponents = getVisibleComponents(parent);
    int nrows = rows;
    int ncols = cols;

    if (nrows > 0) {
        ncols = (ncomponents + nrows - 1) / nrows;
    } else {
        nrows = (ncomponents + ncols - 1) / ncols;
    }
    int w = 0;
    int h = 0;
//  for (int i = 0 ; i < ncomponents ; i++) {
    for (int i = 0 ; i < parent.getComponentCount(); i++) {
        Component comp = parent.getComponent(i);

        if (!comp.isVisible()) continue; // added

        Dimension d = comp.getMinimumSize();
        if (w < d.width) {
        w = d.width;
        }
        if (h < d.height) {
        h = d.height;
        }
    }

    Dimension d = new Dimension(insets.left + insets.right + ncols*w + (ncols-1)*hgap,
                 insets.top + insets.bottom + nrows*h + (nrows-1)*vgap);

    return d;
      }
    }

    public void layoutContainer(Container parent) {
      synchronized (parent.getTreeLock()) {
    Insets insets = parent.getInsets();
//  int ncomponents = parent.getComponentCount();
    int ncomponents = getVisibleComponents(parent);
    int nrows = rows;
    int ncols = cols;
    boolean ltr = parent.getComponentOrientation().isLeftToRight();

    if (ncomponents == 0) {
        return;
    }
    if (nrows > 0) {
        ncols = (ncomponents + nrows - 1) / nrows;
    } else {
        nrows = (ncomponents + ncols - 1) / ncols;
    }

//  int w = parent.width - (insets.left + insets.right);
//  int h = parent.height - (insets.top + insets.bottom);
    int w = parent.getSize().width - (insets.left + insets.right);
    int h = parent.getSize().height - (insets.top + insets.bottom);
    w = (w - (ncols - 1) * hgap) / ncols;
    h = (h - (nrows - 1) * vgap) / nrows;
/*
    if (ltr) {
        for (int c = 0, x = insets.left ; c < ncols ; c++, x += w + hgap) {
        for (int r = 0, y = insets.top ; r < nrows ; r++, y += h + vgap) {
            int i = r * ncols + c;
            if (i < ncomponents) {
            parent.getComponent(i).setBounds(x, y, w, h);
            }
        }
        }
    } else {
//      for (int c = 0, x = parent.width - insets.right - w; c < ncols ; c++, x -= w + hgap) {
        for (int c = 0, x = parent.getSize().width - insets.right - w; c < ncols ; c++, x -= w + hgap) {
        for (int r = 0, y = insets.top ; r < nrows ; r++, y += h + vgap) {
            int i = r * ncols + c;
            if (i < ncomponents) {
            parent.getComponent(i).setBounds(x, y, w, h);
            }
        }
        }
    }
      }
*/

        int i = 0;

        if (ltr)
        {
            for (int r = 0, y = insets.top ; r < nrows ; r++, y += h + vgap)
            {
                int c = 0;
                int x = insets.left;

                while (c < ncols)
                {
                    if (i >= parent.getComponentCount()) break;

                    Component component = parent.getComponent(i);

                    if (component.isVisible())
                    {
                        parent.getComponent(i).setBounds(x, y, w, h);
                        c++;
                        x += w + hgap;
                    }

                    i++;
                }
            }
        }

    }}

    private int getVisibleComponents(Container parent)
    {
        int visible = 0;

        for (Component c: parent.getComponents())
        {
            if (c.isVisible())
                visible++;
        }

        return visible;
    }

    public String toString() {
    return getClass().getName() + "[hgap=" + hgap + ",vgap=" + vgap +
                           ",rows=" + rows + ",cols=" + cols + "]";
    }



    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        final JPanel innerPane = new JPanel();
        JScrollPane scr  = new JScrollPane(innerPane);

        innerPane.setLayout(new InvisibleGridLayout(0, 3));


        for (int i = 0; i < 30; i++)
        {
            JPanel ret = new JPanel();
            JLabel lbl = new JLabel("This is  pane " + i);

            ret.add(lbl);
            ret.setBorder(BorderFactory.createBevelBorder(BevelBorder.RAISED));
            ret.setBackground(Color.gray);

            innerPane.add(ret);
        }

        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.add(scr);
        frame.setBounds(400, 0, 400, 700);
        frame.setVisible(true);

        javax.swing.Timer timer = new javax.swing.Timer(2000, new ActionListener()
        {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < 30; i++)
                {
                    if (i%2==0)
                        innerPane.getComponent(i).setVisible(false);
                }

            }
        });
        timer.setRepeats(false);
        timer.start();

    }
}