JFrame position and size

[Ian Cockcroft]

Hi all,
I am instantiating a JFrame, hoe do I set the position and size. The API specs say nothing about a setLocation method, is there such a method?
Thanks,
Regards
Ian

[Ian Cockcroft]

Found it, sorry[LIST]

[Dirk Schreckmann]

So, what's the answer?

[Ian Cockcroft]

If I knew how to read the API specs, I would have seen that setLocation and setSize are inherited. I was looking for methods defined by that class not the parent class.
cheers
ian

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Understood. Thanks.

[Qusay Jaafar]

Hi,
Use setBounds(int xUpperLeftCorner,
int yUpperLeftCorner,
int frameWidth,
int frameHeight)
Regards

[Sloan Bowman]

You can always use the Toolkit class to get the specs of your currenct system and set the frame accordingly. Example below:
Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
Dimension screenSize = tk.getScreenSize();
final int WIDTH = screenSize.width;
final int HEIGHT = screenSize.height;
// Setup the frame accordingly
// This is assuming you are extending the JFrame //class
this.setSize(WIDTH \ 2, HEIGHT \2);
this.setLocation(WIDTH \ 4, WIDTH \ 4);
Hope this helps someone..
--Sloan

[Chantal Ackermann]

hi,
if your layout management works fine, use pack() and let the components compute their preferred size (of course you should set the preferred size of tables, trees etc.). pack() should be called instead of setSize() (it will overrule setSize if called afterwards, or setSize will overrule pack() in the opposite case), after adding all components, and before calling setVisible().
if you use >1.4 you can place the frame in the center of the screen by calling:
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
(this is a method of java.awt.Window)
regards,
Chantal