how to make my jtextfield smaller ?

i have put a jtextfield at the menubar by using createHorizontalGlue() to make the jtextfield at the right most part of my menubar
it appears at the right most part of my menubar but the width of that jtextfield doesn't changes
i try to make it shorter but that is not working can you have any other method to solve my problem
all i need is my jtextfield should have 30 columns but now it have more than 100 columns and strange thing is i m unable to change this size by invoking any methods.

have you tried setMaximumSize() and setPreferredSize() both?

Nitin Surana wrote:have you tried setMaximumSize() and setPreferredSize() both?

non of them are working in my case
next what should i do ?

Which layout manager are you using? We need to have a look at your code, in order to figure out what is going wrong.

Nitin Surana wrote:Which layout manager are you using? We need to have a look at your code, in order to figure out what is going wrong.

its a big project and lot of code so i cant put the code here
but as far as layout is concern i guess menu bar uses box layout isn't it ?
and i m adding jtextfield to menu bar

when ever i put textfield in jscrollpane it appears at the right hand side but with a long width
but if i remove jscrollpane and just add the jtextfield into menu bar the white area appears till help menu or sometimes overlap help menu
but my search word inside search textfield remain at the right most part of menubar

you can do one thing :
put your jtextfield within a JPanel, now that JPanel is the one which will have large size, but that won't be visible and then you can control the layout of JPanel and hence you can control the size of the jtextfield.

its a big project and lot of code so i cant put the code here

We don't care about your project, only the part you are having problems with. So we only need the part for creating a frame and adding a simple meubar to the frame with a text field.

The code to demonstrate your problem should be about 15-20 lines of code. This is called an SSCCE.

done thanks nitin

to make your textfields smaller use setPrefferedSize(new Dimension(width,height));

eg : to set the height = 25 and width= 30

But keep in mind that the layout manager may ignore it. The center component of a BorderLayout will stretch all ways if the container is enlarged.

you have to add a JToolBar.Separator
try this code before you add the textField and the "search" jButton
yourMenuBar.add(new JToolBar.Separator(new Dimension(int here the length of the separating area,0));
yourMenuBar.add(yourTextField);
yourMenuBar.add(yourSearchButton);

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