Thread: Help with JButtons in a GridLayout?

Hi,

I am building a game in which I have a few buttons set in a JPanel with a GridLayout. This panel is put on the East side of another JPanel which has a BorderLayout. When done this way, the buttons stretch themselves to take up all the vertical space in the JPanel. Here is a screenshot:

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I wanted to fix these buttons so they would be a fixed height and not stretch like this, so at first I looked into using SWT and GridData objects to configure them. I know how to code it that way, but unfortunately I had some problems getting the SWT libraries to work right.

Is there a simpler way to tell these buttons not to stretch this way? Any help appreciated.

You've verified the defined operation of a GridLayout. If you are not satisfied with this, then I recommend you investigate other layout managers.

SWT allows you to change this default behavior of a gridlayout with GridData objects and the boolean grabExcessVerticalSpace field. As I am new to Swing, I was only wondering if it offered a similar option. Of course I looked through the API, but in the case of the SWT example I offered above, sometimes these things are determined by more than a single Object.

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