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GridBagLayout question - Solution

Just a follow-up.

It turns out the problem was that the GUI component which was getting
resized had a "preferred size" of 10x10 pixels, which I assume to be
the default since I never set it to this.

So even though I had called setSize(64, 16) on it during
initialization, this was being ignored in favor of making the
component its "preferred size" by GridBagLayout when pack() was
called on the window.

The solution, which is very handy to know for those of us developing
our own GUI components and using one of the AWT layout managers, was
to over-ride getPreferredSize() to return the proper size of the
component, rather than the default.

I just made a dimension variable for the object which gets set when
setSize() is called, then had getPreferredSize() return this
dimension. Problem solved and everything gets laid out properly.

Many thanks for those who gave advice.

--
Charles Thomas
4D Software Engineer
Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI)
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
1675 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
608-263-6288 Office
608-265-3083
Fax
email@hidden

http://www.loci.wisc.edu/4d
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