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Swing Menu dimensions

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Well, the menu width is automatically adjusted to the width of the longest text. Why would you want the menu to be wider than necessary?

If you must, you should be able to use setMinimumSize() to force a minimum width.

Michael Borgwardt 2010-03-26 20:57:25

or for that matter, why should DOS ever need more than 640k of memory

Zak 2010-03-26 21:04:32

I dont want to use numbers to achive this. i am looking for a layout solution.

iEisenhower 2010-03-26 21:08:58

Why would you want the menu to be wider than necessary: if you look at windows all menu items have space around them. makes it look nicer.

iEisenhower 2010-03-26 21:10:08

@Zak: that comparison makes more sense whatsoever. Letting the width auto-adjust does not impose a restriction on how wide it can get when necessary.

Michael Borgwardt 2010-03-26 21:22:03

@ikurtz: if you look at windows, most menus have more entires, some of which are longer, thus the auto-adjusted width is larger. But the actual space before and after the longest entry is only slightly larger than in your app.

Michael Borgwardt 2010-03-26 21:25:05

Answer 2

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Menus as such looks good anyway. But if really need to have a hack, here it is Get ready for some real quick n dirty hack.

private static final SPACES="   ";
JMenu _Game = new JMenu(SPACES + "Game" + SPACES);
JMenuItem _New = new JMenuItem(SPACES + "New" + SPACES);
JMenuItem _Exit = new JMenuItem(SPACES + "Exit" + SPACES);
JMenu _Turn = new JMenu(SPACES + "Turn" + SPACES);
JMenuItem _Red = new JMenuItem(SPACES + "Red" + SPACES);
JMenuItem _Yellow = new JMenuItem(SPACES + "Yellow" + SPACES);

ring bearer 2010-03-26 21:39:22

i posted this solution above already!

iEisenhower 2010-03-26 21:43:04

Answer 3

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EDIT: Solved!

JMenuItem _New = new JMenuItem("New        ");

just add spaces as needed! simple.

this is a hack and not a pretty one but havent come across others yet.

iEisenhower 2010-04-08 11:06:02

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