Line spacing

[Mike Lipay]

Hi, my first newbie question. I did search and could not find an answer elsewhere. I am creating a small application at work as part of a learning experience in Java, a simple How-To manual for our newbies. At this point I am trying to get the banner to look right, and have made some progress. Where I am currently stuck is in spacing the lines, I need to get them close together than the app is currently doing. The lines in question are in the banner section; I need to cut the spacing by half, while leaving the font sizes as they are.

Thanks in advance,

Mike

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*; 
 
public class NewMadness extends JFrame {
    // screen colors
        Color maroon = new Color (96, 0, 0);
    
    // fonts
        Font tfFont = new Font ("SansSerif", Font.BOLD, 24);
        Font sciFont = new Font ("SansSerif", Font.BOLD, 21);
        Font oeomFont = new Font ("Serif", Font.BOLD, 18);
 
    // set up row 1
        JPanel row1 = new JPanel();
        JLabel bannerTF1 = new JLabel(" Thermo Fisher");
        JLabel bannerOEOM = new JLabel("OE/OM");
 
    // set up row 2
        JPanel row2 = new JPanel();
        JLabel bannerTF2 = new JLabel(" S C I E N T I F I C");
        JLabel bannerHowTo = new JLabel("How-To");
    
 
    public NewMadness() {
        super("OEOM How-To");
        setSize(550, 200);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        GridLayout layout = new GridLayout(5, 1, 0, 0);
        getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
 
        GridLayout layoutTF = new GridLayout(1, 2, 0, 0);
 
        layoutTF.setVgap(0);
        bannerTF1.setFont(tfFont);
        bannerTF1.setForeground(Color.white);
        row1.add(bannerTF1);
 
        layoutTF.setVgap(3);
        bannerOEOM.setFont(oeomFont);
        bannerOEOM.setHorizontalAlignment(0);
        bannerOEOM.setForeground(Color.yellow);
        row1.setBackground(maroon);
        row1.setLayout(layoutTF);
        row1.add(bannerOEOM);
 
        getContentPane().add(row1);
 
        layoutTF.setVgap(0);
        bannerTF2.setFont(sciFont);
        bannerTF2.setForeground(Color.white);
        row2.add(bannerTF2);
 
        layoutTF.setVgap(3);
        bannerHowTo.setFont(oeomFont);
        bannerHowTo.setHorizontalAlignment(0);
        bannerHowTo.setForeground(Color.yellow);
        row2.setBackground(maroon);
        row2.setLayout(layoutTF);
        row2.add(bannerHowTo);
 
        getContentPane().add(row2);
 
        setVisible(true);
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] arguments) {
        NewMadness frame = new NewMadness();
    }
}

[fred rosenberger]

This looks more like a Swing/AWT type question. You'll probably get a better response there, so i'll move it over for you.