I want help with display

[Maki Jav]

Hi,

I have an application which is okay butI am feeling problem with setting its top level panel jPanel1 which is added in North of the frame.

Now jPanel1 is the main JPanel which has a gridlayout of 4 rows.
it contains 3 Jpanels namely jpanTop1, jpanTop2 and jpanTop3, and a new JPanel() as the fourth element. It is added to JScrollPane topScroll, that in turn is added to Jframe Center and finally jPanel2 which holds buttons in the South.
Please note that if you don't added resultPanel to jpanTop3, the display is okay. I have yet to added functionality to limit ResultSet to 10 or specified no of records.

What I want is to shape upper (North) of the JFrame so as to beautify it...

The classes are GridTable.java and ResultsModel.java. You may download these files and help me with this.

It also had some other problems which I overcome regarding SQL and Model which I will discuss later...

Thanx,

Maki Jav
[ January 29, 2006: Message edited by: Maki Jav ]

[Michael Dunn]

this is a classic example for not using gui builders.

post a demo program of just the gui with the components, no actionListeners,
no connections, just the frame and the displayed components.
(it should be no more than 100 lines)

[Maki Jav]

Well! here it is.

It is not as small as you wished but fully commented so as to guide you fully. The problem lies between line nos. 102-149 ie in the top third row where I was trying to add a functionality to restrict records.

Thank you for helping me...

Maki Jav

[Michael Dunn]

see if this is any closer to the display you want

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
class GridTable extends JFrame
{
  public GridTable()
  {
    setSize(500,400);
    setLocation(200,100);
    setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    JPanel northPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
    JPanel westPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(4,1));
    westPanel.add(new JLabel("JDBC Driver:"));
    westPanel.add(new JLabel("URL:"));
    westPanel.add(new JLabel("Select Table:"));
    westPanel.add(new JLabel("Records:"));
    northPanel.add(westPanel,BorderLayout.WEST);
    JPanel centerPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(4,1));
    centerPanel.add(new JComboBox());
    JPanel urlPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
    urlPanel.add(new JTextField(),BorderLayout.CENTER);
    urlPanel.add(new JButton("Connect"),BorderLayout.EAST);
    centerPanel.add(urlPanel);
    centerPanel.add(new JComboBox());
    JPanel recordsPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
    JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(1,2));
    ButtonGroup bg = new ButtonGroup();
    JRadioButton rb1 = new JRadioButton("10",true);
    JRadioButton rb2 = new JRadioButton("Return");
    bg.add(rb1);
    bg.add(rb2);
    buttonPanel.add(rb1);
    buttonPanel.add(rb2);
    recordsPanel.add(buttonPanel,BorderLayout.WEST);
    recordsPanel.add(new JTextField(),BorderLayout.CENTER);
    centerPanel.add(recordsPanel);
    northPanel.add(centerPanel,BorderLayout.CENTER);
    String colNames[] = {"Title 0 x row","Title 1 x row","Title 2 x row","Title 3 x row","Title 4 x row","Title 5 x row"};
    DefaultTableModel dtm = new DefaultTableModel(null,colNames);
    JTable table = new JTable(dtm);
    JScrollPane sp = new JScrollPane(table);
    getContentPane().add(northPanel,BorderLayout.NORTH);
    getContentPane().add(sp,BorderLayout.CENTER);
    for(int x = 0; x < 20; x++) dtm.addRow(new String[6]);
  }
  public static void main(String[] args){new GridTable().setVisible(true);}
}

[Maki Jav]

Yes it is almost....

but what happened to that border for number of records?

Maki Jav
[ January 31, 2006: Message edited by: Maki Jav ]

[Michael Dunn]

instead of a titled border, I changed it to a label id'ing the radiobuttons etc

if you want it to look similar to the items above, add this line
recordsPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder());

[Maki Jav]

Is that titled border giving problems or what?

Thanx,

Maki Jav

[Michael Dunn]

> Is that titled border giving problems or what?

not at all.

my code is my thoughts in response to this:
> What I want is to shape upper (North) of the JFrame so as to beautify it...

simply add it back.

[Maki Jav]

Thank you very much for your effort, i appreciate it.


Maki Jav