A question about GUIs

[Giles Humphreys]

When doing GUI work, what is the relation between the attributes PreferredSize, Size, MaximumSize, MinimumSize etc. and the actual size of a component?
It seems that how I set these has variable and marginal effect on the actual size of a component.
Can you help??

[Joe Ess]

Sounds like you could use the Java Tutorial: Creating a GUI with Swing chapter on Laying out Components Within a Container

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Moving this to the Swing / JFC / AWT forum...

[Pat Hays]

Only if you use any layout manager for the parent container, the MaximumSize, MinimumSize, PreferredSize attributes may effect on the actual size of a component.

The layout manager will dynamic calculate out what Size each component should be in this container, according to the above attributes.

[ August 20, 2004: Message edited by: Pool Hays ]
[ August 20, 2004: Message edited by: Pat Hays ]

[Warren Dew]

Note that some layout managers pay attention to minimum/preferred/maximum sizes, and others ignore them, and some pay attention only in some positions. Unfortunately, as with all things Swing, what actually happens in any individual case is poorly documented, so you have to experiment.