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Re: JDialog sizes under OS X

Your problem is the line,

setSize(jPanel.getPreferredSize());

Where did you ever come up with that construct? The JDialog needs to be larger than the JPanel in order to account for the window "decoration" (title bar, etc.).

The correct thing to do is to call pack() on the JDialog. This will ask the JPanel for it's preferred size and resize the Dialog so everything fits.

At 12:02 PM -0700 4/27/01, Christian Schaller wrote:
Hi. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem and what the
solution might be. Under OS X, my JDialogs invariably come out the wrong
size vertically -- they're too short, and interface elements at the bottom
of the window are always chopped off.

For example, in an About dialog that extends JDialog, I'm putting a JLabel
(with an image icon) and a JButton into a JPanel, then adding the JPanel
to the content pane of the JDialog. Then I'm setting the size to the
preferred size of the JPanel:

getContentPane().add(jPanel);
setSize(jPanel.getPreferredSize());

It doesn't seem to matter what Layout I use for the jPanel. If I use a
BorderLayout and put the JLabel North and the JButton Center or if I use a
BoxLayout, it's still the same thing: a window truncated at the bottom.

It also doesn't seem to matter whether I use the Aqua look and feel or the
Metal look and feel.

Meanwhile, windows that are extensions of JFrame don't have this problem.

Can someone suggest a solution, please?

Thanks,

Chris Schaller

--
Bill Tschumy
Otherwise -- Austin, TX
email@hidden

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 >JDialog sizes under OS X (From: Christian Schaller <email@hidden>)



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