Layout

[Terry Stehle]

Im trying to lay out my game so that the board is on the left hand side of the JFrame and the JTextField is in the upper right, and the JTextArea is below that. I have tried the GridBagLayout but can seem to get it to work. This is kinda what Im looking for
.................
. .TextField.
.Board...........
. .TextArea .
.................
The board is approx 560 x 560 in size, and the text field and area is for the chat area. I would appricate any help on how I can accomplish this. Thanks Terry

[Paul Stevens]

BorderLayout might work using JPanels to control position of the text fields. Or you could use a verticle BoxLayout.

[Nathan Pruett]

The drawing of your layout doesn't look exactly right... I think that some of the spaces you inserted for spacing were eaten...

Anyway... I think this was the layout you wanted... if not, post back what needs to be fixed...

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
 
public class TestLayout
{
    private JFrame theFrame;
    private JPanel theBoard;
    private JTextField theTextField;
    private JTextArea  theTextArea;
 
    TestLayout()
    {
        theFrame = new JFrame( "Test Game Layout" );
        theBoard = new JPanel();
        theBoard.setPreferredSize( new Dimension( 560, 560 ) );
        theTextField = new JTextField();
        theTextField.setPreferredSize( new Dimension( 150, 20 ) );
        theTextField.addActionListener( new TFHandler() );
        theTextArea = new JTextArea();
        JPanel p = new JPanel();
        p.setLayout( new BorderLayout() );
        p.add( theTextField, BorderLayout.NORTH );
        p.add( new JScrollPane( theTextArea ), BorderLayout.CENTER );
        Container c = theFrame.getContentPane();
        c.add( p, BorderLayout.EAST );
        c.add( theBoard, BorderLayout.CENTER );
        theFrame.addWindowListener( new ExitHandler() );
        theFrame.pack();
        theFrame.setVisible( true );
    }
 
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        new TestLayout();
    }
 
    private class ExitHandler extends WindowAdapter
    {
        public void windowClosing( WindowEvent event )
        {
            System.exit( 0 );
        }
    }
 
    private class TFHandler implements ActionListener
    {
        public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent event )
        {
            JTextField tf = ( JTextField )event.getSource();
            String text = tf.getText();
            theTextArea.append( text + "\n" );
            tf.setText( "" );
        }
    }
}

-Nate