Fixing flowlayout in Java

Question

Hi I have created a GUI for my program in Java, and I have used flowlayout (didnt have much luck with borderlayout), but with flowlayout if the user resizes the program, everything goes out of alignment, so i'm wondering is there anyway to stop the frame of the program from being resized? if so how?

Thank You

Answer 1

JFrame::setResizable(false)

But this is bad practice; you need to investigate other layouts and potentially use multiple layouts to achieve you goals. See here.

See the api

Answer 2

In order to stop a JFrame or JDialog all you need to do is call the method setResizable(false) on your frame or dialog.

You can do this in your constructor like:

public YourWindowNAme(){
    // stuff
    setResizable(false);
    // more stuff
}

or it can be called externaly like:

instanceOfYourWindow.setResizable(false);

Here is the API for the method.

Answer 3

When you have better time this might interest you: http://www.netbeans.org/files/documents/4/475/matisse.html

It is the new layout manager arrived with Netbeans 6.