how to increase the size of the text field and change its position ?

[naved momin]

my text box is very small in output , even though i have manually set the text bounds by giving the pixels and all , but still it does not changing any size of it ..please tell me whats wrong ?

/*
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package secondgui;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

/**
 *
 * @author Admin
 */
public class SecondGui {

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    private JFrame frame;
    private JButton button;
    private JTextField txt;
    private JLabel label;
    private JComboBox cb;
    private JPanel panel;
    private Font f;

    public void setFrame()
    {
        frame = new JFrame(" my frame");
        f  = new Font("Lucida Console", Font.ITALIC,20);
        button = new JButton(" ok ");
        txt = new JTextField();
        label = new JLabel(" my Firts gui ");
        label.setFont(f);
        String[] list = {" c++ ", "java" , "c" ," phython "};
        cb = new JComboBox(list);
        panel = new JPanel();

    }
    public void getFrame()
    {
        
        //frame.setContentPanel();
        panel.add(button);
        frame.add(panel);
        panel.setBackground(Color.RED);
        panel.setForeground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
        
        frame.getContentPane().add(txt);
        txt.setBounds(1500 , 350 , 22 , 11 );
        frame.getContentPane().add(label);
        //frame.getContentPane().add(button);
        frame.getContentPane().add(cb);
        frame.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setSize(300,400);
        frame.setVisible(true);



    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO code application logic here
        SecondGui s = new SecondGui();
        s.setFrame();
        s.getFrame();
    }

}

[Andrey Kozhanov]

Just use another JTextField constructor - JTextField(String text), where text contains initial text field string, or JTextField(int columns).

[Rob Spoor]

Correct. The call to setBounds is useless as the layout manager will resize it anyway. Naved, you should read this.

I'll move this thread to our GUI forum.