BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Positioning controls...          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> JBuilder IDE View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Gene Buckle Guest Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:40 pm    Post subject: Positioning controls... By whatever accident, I got controls that I place on a form to actually show up. However, the controls all center themselves at the top of the screen and dragging them is impossible. There is no clues in the properties box as to why these controls seem to auto-center and lock themselves in place. What is going on? If this is some kind of (mis)feature, why is it the default behavior? No amount of hunting on Google has provided an answer and the documention won't install (the installer silently fails after the installer finishes unpacking to a temp directory). I'm insanely frustrated by this damn thing. It's like Borland used their brightest minds to create the Delphi and C++ Builder IDEs while hiring Lloyd the Slow Janitor to do JBuilder's after making him suitably qualified by subjecting him to 6 months of electroshock therapy followed by a frontal lobotomy. C'mon guys, throw me a rope here. If you can't help at least I'll have some- thing handy to hang myself with. :) g. Back to top Kevin Dean Guest Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 7:33 pm    Post subject: Re: Positioning controls... Java (not JBuilder) uses layout managers to manage component placement. It can be a little confusing at first, but once you understand the flexibility of GridBagLayout you'll wish it were available in Windows. For a tutorial on layout managers, see: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/visual.html -- Check out our latest white papers at http://www.datadevelopment.com/papers/index.html BladeNET Scores With Borland Enterprise Tools Team Development with JBuilder and Borland Enterprise Server Dolphin Data Development Ltd. http://www.datadevelopment.com/ "Gene Buckle" <geneb (AT) grumble (DOT) deltasoft.com> wrote Quote: By whatever accident, I got controls that I place on a form to actually show up. However, the controls all center themselves at the top of the screen and dragging them is impossible. There is no clues in the properties box as to why these controls seem to auto-center and lock themselves in place. What is going on? If this is some kind of (mis)feature, why is it the default behavior? No amount of hunting on Google has provided an answer and the documention won't install (the installer silently fails after the installer finishes unpacking to a temp directory). I'm insanely frustrated by this damn thing. It's like Borland used their brightest minds to create the Delphi and C++ Builder IDEs while hiring Lloyd the Slow Janitor to do JBuilder's after making him suitably qualified by subjecting him to 6 months of electroshock therapy followed by a frontal lobotomy. C'mon guys, throw me a rope here. If you can't help at least I'll have some- thing handy to hang myself with. :) g. Back to top Gene Buckle Guest Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Positioning controls... Kevin Dean <NkOdSePaAnM (AT) datadevelopment (DOT) com> wrote: Quote: Java (not JBuilder) uses layout managers to manage component placement. It can be a little confusing at first, but once you understand the flexibility of GridBagLayout you'll wish it were available in Windows. For a tutorial on layout managers, see: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/visual.html Thanks for the info Kevin. I hammered on it for a while and discovered that if I set the Frame layout property to NULL I could position the controls how I liked. g. Back to top John McGrath [TeamB] Guest Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 2:44 am    Post subject: Re: Positioning controls... On 4/15/2004 at 4:00:29 PM, Gene Buckle wrote: Quote: Thanks for the info Kevin. I hammered on it for a while and discovered that if I set the Frame layout property to NULL I could position the controls how I liked. Yes, you can. But you still might want to read that tutorial on layout managers and take a little time to understand them. For starters, when your program uses fixed x,y coordinates, it may not work correctly on other operating systems or even on the same operating system with a different font configuration. 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