How can I control the width of JTextFields in Java Swing?
- by Jonas
I am trying to have several JTextFields on a single row, but I don't want them to have the same width. How can I control the width and make some of them wider than others? I want that they together take up 100% of the total width, so it would be good if I could use some kind of weigthing.
I have tried with .setColumns() but it doesn't make sense.
Here is my code:
class Row extends JComponent {
public Row() {
this.setLayout(new BoxLayout(this, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
JTextField fld1 = new JTextField("First field");
JTextField fld2 = new JTextField("Second field, should be longer");
JTextField fld3 = new JTextField("Short field");
JTextField fld4 = new JTextField("Another field");
fld1.setBorder(null);
fld2.setBorder(null);
fld3.setBorder(null);
fld4.setBorder(null);
fld1.setFocusable(false);
fld2.setFocusable(false);
fld3.setFocusable(false);
fld4.setFocusable(false);
fld1.setColumns(5); // makes no sense
this.add(fld1);
this.add(fld2);
this.add(fld3);
this.add(fld4);
}
}
this.setLayout(new GridLayout(20,0));
this.add(new Row());
this.add(new Row());
this.add(new Row());
