CardLayout and different sized panels

add the smaller one to another panel (holdingPanel),

add the holdingPanel to the cardLayoutPanel

depending where you want the smaller panel to appear in the holdingPanel,

top/bottom/left/right/center/combinationsOf will determine the layout manager

you use for holdingPanel

Michael_Dunna at 2007-7-7 22:24:11 >

> So there is no way to calculate the size automatically?

LayoutManagers will calculate the size automatically based on the preferred size of the components added to a container.

You can override the preferred size of a component by setting the preferred size of the component.

The CardLayout will use the largest preferred size of all the components added to the card layout.

> But it does not work...

3 lines of code does not show us what you are doing.

If you need further help then you need to create a [url http://homepage1.nifty.com/algafield/sscce.html]Short, Self Contained, Compilable and Executable, Example Program[/url] (SSCCE) that demonstrates the incorrect behaviour, because I can't guess exactly what you are doing based on the information provided.

And don't forget to use the [url http://forum.java.sun.com/help.jspa?sec=formatting]Code Formatting Tags[/url] so the code retains its original formatting.

camickra at 2007-7-7 22:24:11 >