Hi all,
I am programming a Swing application. The entire gui of the application is divided into 9 equal sized panels arranged in 3 rows and 3 columns. Now some panels have tabbed panes and some have some buttons (JButtons). Now the screen resolution of my laptop is 1280x800 pixels. I am using layout managers to layout these panels and the objects inside them. I am using borderlayout and flowlayout predominantly. Now under the above mentioned screen layout everything is fine to look. but when I connect my laptop to a projector to show my GUI to others in a conference, the projector has a lower resolution, so the entire layout is mixed up. In particular the tabbed panes and buttons. I have given some lengthy names as heading of the tabbed panes and so instead of displaying linearly ( one after other ), they overlap. The button are of different sizes and are put in a panel with flowlayout. So the buttons in the right most side of the panel disappear under low resolution. What should I do. I dont mind if the names of the buttons and tabbed panes ends with "......", for example - I have a button called "Create/Modify". The button totally disappears under low resolution.