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I have a problem with my program. Every time when I change my screen resolution, my image starts to move out of position. Any suggestions on how to make my image stay in the same location even though I change to any other resolution? p2 = new JPanel(); p2.setLayout(new FlowLayout()); ImageIcon img2 = new ImageIcon("C:\\Drum\\Invisible4.png"); jbtn2 = new JLabel(img2); p2.add(jbtn2); add(jbtn2); jbtn2.setSize(jbtn2.getPreferredSize()); jbtn2.setLocation(140, 380); MadProgrammer I prefer to always try and work within boundaries of the framework where I can, it makes life generally easier in the

I have been using a null layout and I alot of people will say it shouldn't be done this way. Is there a better way? Some code as example: import javax.swing.*; public class Main{ public static void main(String args[]){ JFrame frame = new JFrame(); JPanel panel = new JPanel(); JButton button = new JButton("Click"); //JFrame, frame frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.setResizable(false); frame.setSize(500, 500); frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null); frame.setVisible(true); //JPanel, panel panel.setLayout(null); //<<---- Is this correct? frame.add(panel); //JButton, button

How to add a JButton into the center of a JFrame with BorderLayout() ? I tried using BorderLayout.CENTER , but instead of the center of the screen, it gave the top-center of the screen. Or do I have to use another layout manager? Andrew Thompson Put a JPanel in the CENTER and set the layout to GridBagLayout or BoxLayout as seen in this answer to Set component at center of the page . The GridBagLayout is used to center a label containing the yellow/red gradient image seen in the Nested Layout Example . It may take some time to learn, but SpringLayout is worth looking into. It will let you

I have some questions on positioning components and some questions on text fields and text areas (Java Swing). Any help is greatly appreciated. Right now I am trying to have two text fields beside each other with a different label above each describing what that text field does. To achieve this I have placed them in a GridLayout(2, 2) . Is this the best way? It is the only way I know to have a label directly over another component. Is there a better way? What about if there is just one label above one button. Is it sensible to position this through a GridLayout(2, 1) ? I am visually impaired

I was trying to achieve the end result required in Setting an arbitrary width in GridBagLayout . For easy reference, here it is: This is the current result: Button number and row is shown in the form 1,1 , followed by the number of columns (2) declared for this cell. As you can see, it starts with buttons 1,1 (3) and below it 1,2 (4) being the same width, while declaring different numbers of columns. Can anyone determine how to correct the code? The current code: import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder; public class KeyBoardLayout { private JComponent ui

I have many JLabel s (which includes ImageIcon s) in a JPanel . And this JPanel is only a panel on the GUI; there are lots of other panels. I want to place labels to the exact pixel coordinates on their JPanel container. How can I do that without using GroupLayout ? See Doing Without a Layout Manager (Absolute Positioning) in the Java tutorials. Creating a container without a layout manager involves the following steps. Set the container's layout manager to null by calling setLayout(null) . Call the Component class's setbounds method for each of the container's children. Call the Component

For a JLabel with icon, if you setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.LEADING) , the icon is painted right after text, no matter how wide the label is. This is particularly bad for a list, as the icons would be all over the place depending on how long the text is for each item. I traced the code and it seems to be that in SwingUtilities#layoutCompoundLabelImpl , text width is simply set to SwingUtilities2.stringWidth(c, fm, text) , and icon x is set to follow text without considering label width. Here is the simplest case: import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; public class TestJLabelIcon