Resizing the JDialog when few fields are set invisible.

[Praveen Kumar Jayaram]

Hi,

I have many fields in a JDialog box. And I am making some of them invisible (based on some logic).
I tried using dialog.pack();
But this was not resizing completely (To an good view). It had still spaces.

Is there any way to calculate the new size by considering the last field.
Do I need to use component.getX() and component.getY(). Or component.getWidth() and component.getHeight().. ??

Please help.

Regards,
Praveen

[Ted Smyth]

X & Y are container-relative positions (correct me if I'm wrong here, the javadocs mention this being relative to "the parent" of the component) of the top-left corner, if you want to use the size of the components to change the size of dialog, you would be correct in using getWidth() and getHeight().

You could then subtract those values from the width or height (depending on their position) of the dialog (getSize()) to resize it.

Seems like a complicated solution to me though... perhaps with more information about your dialog & problem I could suggest a better solution.

[pete stein]

I'm guessing that you need to do two things here:
1) consider using a cardlayout rather than swapping components
2) read and study the layout manager tutorials in the sun Swing tutorials.

The latter was already suggested to you in the Sun Java forums though. Since many are suggesting it to you, perhaps you should take it to heart.

[Praveen Kumar Jayaram]

Originally posted by Ted Smyth:
X & Y are container-relative positions (correct me if I'm wrong here, the javadocs mention this being relative to "the parent" of the component) of the top-left corner, if you want to use the size of the components to change the size of dialog, you would be correct in using getWidth() and getHeight().

You could then subtract those values from the width or height (depending on their position) of the dialog (getSize()) to resize it.

Seems like a complicated solution to me though... perhaps with more information about your dialog & problem I could suggest a better solution.

Thanks for your reply.
To be in breif, I have JDialog. There are some fields which should be displayed depending on some input read from a file. What I am doing is simply having all fields on JDialog and setting not required fields to invisible. I had used dialog.pack() to resize before, but still it left some spaces. So I thought of using getHeight() for the last field displayed and setting the size of the JDialog.

I will refer some layout manager tutorials parallely. If you have some better idea, let me know.

regards,
Praveen

[Ted Smyth]

I think Pete's CardLayout suggestion would work best:

Have a set of fields placed into each card in a CardLayout, and simply show the card that matches the conditions from your file.

Another (slower) option is to just remove all the components in the dialog and then add the desired components it before showing.
[ July 15, 2008: Message edited by: Ted Smyth ]