positioning frame...

[karan, chopra]

hi all,
i have a main frame say "a" and i am trying to show another frame say "b" from "a" by calling objectofframe"b".show()..now the frame "b" shows allright but my problem is that i want this frame "b" to be displayed at the center of frame "a",is there any way to go about it?ranchers plz advice..
regards
karan

[Gregg Bolinger]

Do you need to individual frames or could you maybe make a better application by opening a JInternalFrame. That way you could open a frame inside your current frame and center it.
I could show you some code it that would help and if you would like to use internal Frames.

[Manfred Leonhardt]

Hi Karen,
You could setup your Frame A as a component listener of Frame B. Inside your componentShown method you could perform the following:

  Point aLoc = A.getLocation();
  Dimension aDim = A.getSize();
  Dimension bDim = B.getSize();
  Point bLoc = new Point();
  bLoc.x = (Math.abs(aDim.width - bDim.width) / 2) + aLoc.x;
  bLoc.y = (Math.abs(aDim.height - bDim.height) / 2) + aLoc.y;
  B.setLocation( bLoc );

Regards,
Manfred.

[karan, chopra]

hi manfred,
thanks a lot for the reply,actually i have never worked with components before,so can u please tell me how to make "frame a" a component listener of "frame b"..probably a piece of code would do the trick..i appreciate ur help..
regards
karan