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Help with GridBagLayout resize behaviour

 
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Here's a panel called panelLower from my GUI. It sits in the the SOUTH BorderLayout position in a JPanel, which is displayed in a frame.
It has a 2x2 GridBagLayout with 2 panels, panelControls and panelPositions, plus a checkbox.
The 2 panels each have GridBagLayouts, of 4x1 and 8x1. panelControls contains 4 panels (Zoom, Move, Detail, Size) which are configured with GroupLayouts or GridBagLayouts.

My problem is this: when I resize the frame, the left-most columns of the GridBagLayouts are squashed. Here's what I mean:

The Zoom panel has shrunk and the first label on panelPositions has disappeared altogether. What I want if for the panels to stay rigid and not shrink at all. Is this possible with the GridBagLayout?

I have set a minimumSize and a preferredSize for each of the panels. Not sure what else I can do.
 
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Try using:



I believe a decorated frame will respect the minimum size of components.

 
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I've inserted before creating my JFrame, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
 
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Works fine for me using the grid bag layout demo code from the Swing tutorial on "How to Use GridbagLayout".
 
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If I set the look and feel to the default Metal and include this line, it does respect the minumum sizes. However it makes the frame take the Metal look, as well as the whole GUI, so it's not really a solution. The line doesn't have any effect with Nimbus either either (frame is as per System look and feel).
 
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Solved it:

I put panelLower in a JScrollPane and turned off both the scrollbars.

Might it be possible to have the same effect using a JViewPort directly, instead of a JScrollPane without scrollbars?
 
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