Re: Automatic resizing of a Container

put those panels both within a panel and do border layout or flow  
layout in there...that would probably do it. I don't know that vbox is  
even needed in what you're doing.

what's with the <panel /> tags though?


-Kate Rhodes
Open source consultant & Java developer
http://www.masukomi.org
On Jun 1, 2004, at 4:22 AM, Frederic Gedin wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> Is there a way to automatically rezize a container when one of its
> components has changed its size?
>
> The organization of my various components can be represented in XML  
> (SwiXML
> compliant) by:
>
> <panel id="panel_media" layout="borderlayout"
>   border="EmptyBorder(10, 10, 10, 10)"
>   constraints="BorderLayout.CENTER" >
>   <vbox constraints="BorderLayout.CENTER" >
>     <panel />
>     <panel id="panel_video" maximumsize="180,140" preferredsize="180,14 
> 0" 
>       background="black" />
>     <panel id="control_video" maximumsize="180,35" preferredsize="180,3 
> 5"
>       border="BevelBorder(1)" />
>     <panel />
>   </vbox>
> </panel>
>
> When I change the size of the JPanel with ID "panel_video", I would  
> like to
> have the whole JPanel with ID "panel_media" to be resized  
> automatically.
> The Java code I use is:
>
> ....
> // retrieves JPanel with ID panel_video   
> JPanel videoPanel = getVideoPanel();
> // retrieves JPanel with ID panel_media   
> JPanel mediaControlPanel = getMediaControlPanel();
> ... Other changes inside videoPanel
> videoPanel.setSize(newSize);
> mediaPanel.updateUI();
>
> I tried also by repacking the whole application frame without any  
> success.
>
> Did I miss something?
>
> Regards
>
> Frederic
>
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