fields not formatted correctly

[Brandi Love]

So, I've got this window that contains a number of text fields. My problem is that when I run it the fields are all squashed and I can't enter any text in them, it looks almost as if they are set to a size of zero, which they aren't. I'm using a GridBagLayout and I can't figure whats wrong with it, I know it must be something in those settings that is messing this up. Any ideas?

//****************************** Place an Order ******************************
 
public class PlaceAnOrder extends JApplet 
{
  private JButton order = new JButton("Place Order"), 
    menu = new JButton(" Main  Menu "),
    lookup = new JButton("Look up customer ID"),
    exit = new JButton("         Exit        ");
    
  
  private JTextField customerIDField = new JTextField(20),
    item1nField = new JTextField(10),
    item2nField = new JTextField(10),
    item3nField = new JTextField(10),
    item4nField = new JTextField(10),
    item5nField = new JTextField(10),
    item6nField = new JTextField(10),
    item7nField = new JTextField(10),
    item8nField = new JTextField(10),
    creditCardTypeField = new JTextField(2),
    creditCardNumField = new JTextField(16),
    nameOnCardField = new JTextField(40),
    expirationDateField = new JTextField(4);
  
  class OrderButtonListener implements ActionListener
  {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
      try
      {
        Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
        String dataSourceName = "db";
        String dbURL = "jdbc :-o	 dbc:" + dataSourceName;
        Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(dbURL, "","");
        
        Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
        /*String createString = "create table orders " +
          "(orderID INTEGER, " +
          "customerID INTEGER, " +
          "itemsOrdered VARCHAR(255), " +
          "orderStatus VARCHAR(10), " +
          "orderDate VARCHAR(6), " +
          "shipDate VARCHAR(6))";
        stmt.executeUpdate(createString);*/
        
      }
      
      catch (Exception err) 
      {
        System.out.println("ERROR: " + err);
        //catches and prints any errors produced
      }
    }
  }
    
  class MenuButtonListener implements ActionListener
  {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
      run(new MenuScreen(), 625, 550);
      System.exit(0);
    }
  }
  
  class ExitButtonListener implements ActionListener 
  {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
      System.exit(0); //Exits when the exit button is clicked.
    }
  }
  
  private OrderButtonListener ohandler = new OrderButtonListener();
  private MenuButtonListener mhandler = new MenuButtonListener();
  private ExitButtonListener ehandler = new ExitButtonListener();
  
  public void init()
  {
    order.addActionListener(ohandler);
    menu.addActionListener(mhandler);
    exit.addActionListener(ehandler);
    Container cp = getContentPane();
    cp.setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
     
    GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();
    c.gridx = 0;
    c.gridy = GridBagConstraints.RELATIVE;
    c.weightx = 1.0;
    c.insets = new Insets(2, 2, 2, 2);
    c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.EAST;
    
    cp.add(new JLabel("Customer ID number:", SwingConstants.RIGHT), c);
    cp.add(new JLabel("Item 1 (name or ID number):", SwingConstants.RIGHT), c);
    cp.add(new JLabel("Item 2 (name or ID number):", SwingConstants.RIGHT), c);
    cp.add(new JLabel("Item 3 (name or ID number):", SwingConstants.RIGHT), c);
    cp.add(new JLabel("Item 4 (name or ID number):", SwingConstants.RIGHT), c);
    cp.add(new JLabel("Item 5 (name or ID number):", SwingConstants.RIGHT), c);
    cp.add(new JLabel("Item 6 (name or ID number):", SwingConstants.RIGHT), c);
    cp.add(new JLabel("Item 7 (name or ID number):", SwingConstants.RIGHT), c);
    cp.add(new JLabel("Item 8 (name or ID number):", SwingConstants.RIGHT), c);
    cp.add(new JLabel("Credit Card Type:", SwingConstants.RIGHT), c);
    cp.add(new JLabel("Credit Card Number:", SwingConstants.RIGHT), c);
    cp.add(new JLabel("Name On Credit Card:", SwingConstants.RIGHT), c);
    cp.add(new JLabel("Credit Card Expiration Date:", SwingConstants.RIGHT), c);
    
    c.gridx = 1;    c.gridy = 0;
    c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.WEST;
    cp.add(customerIDField, c);
    
    c.gridx = 1;
    c.gridy = GridBagConstraints.RELATIVE;
           
    cp.add(customerIDField, c);
    cp.add(item1nField, c);
    cp.add(item2nField, c);
    cp.add(item3nField, c);
    cp.add(item4nField, c);
    cp.add(item5nField, c);
    cp.add(item6nField, c);
    cp.add(item7nField, c);
    cp.add(item8nField, c);
    cp.add(creditCardTypeField, c);
    cp.add(creditCardNumField, c);
    cp.add(nameOnCardField, c);
    cp.add(expirationDateField, c);
    
    c.gridx = 0;
    c.gridwidth = 2;
    c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.CENTER;
    
    cp.add(order, c);
    cp.add(menu, c);
    cp.add(exit, c);
  }
  
    public static void run(JApplet applet, int width, int height)
  {
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("Red Fox Books and Wax - Place an Order");
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.getContentPane().add(applet);
    frame.setSize(width, height);
    applet.init();
    applet.start();
    frame.setVisible(true);
  }
  
  public static void main(String[] args) 
  {
    run(new PlaceAnOrder(), 350, 500);
  }
}

[Craig Wood]

Add this line to the end of the "init" method.

        System.out.println(cp.getPreferredSize());

[Brandi Love]

I get the following:

java.awt.Dimension[width=609,height=402]

Does that mean the preferred size of the window? I tried changing it to that and it doesn't fix the field size problem and not everything fits into the window.

[Brandi Love]

Ahh, now I see the problem. One of my fields was set to a high size, thus screwing up the size of the other fields because the size of the window was too small.