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JButton redimension itself

 
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Hi, I got a component in a panel that have a button and a text field, side by side. The button have a pop-up menu that is shown when user clicks the button. When I select any item, I call the setText() method in my button and the label of the button changes (of course).
Ok, it works fine, but when the button is redimensioned, the size of the button changes in agremment with the new text.
How could I stop it, fixing the size of the button?
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button.setPreferredSize( new Dimension( width, height) );
 
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Sorry, I forgot to mention that .setPreferredSize() don't work in this case. I've tried it before...
 
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You are getting gazumped by the button's parent's layout manager. Maybe you can change to a layout manager that takes note of your button's preferred size?
 
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