My question is similar to this one (How to get JScrollPanes within a JScrollPane to follow parent's resizing), but that question wasn't clear and the answer there didn't help me..
I have this SSCCE (using MigLayout):
public static final int pref_height = 500;
public static void main(String[] args) {
JPanel innerPanel = new JPanel(new MigLayout());
innerPanel.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.YELLOW, 5));
for(int i = 0; i < 15; i++) {
JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea();
textArea.setColumns(20);
textArea.setRows(5);
textArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
textArea.setLineWrap(true);
JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(textArea);
innerPanel.add(new JLabel("Notes" + i));
innerPanel.add(jsp, "span, grow");
}
JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(innerPanel) {
@Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
Dimension dim = new Dimension(super.getPreferredSize().width + getVerticalScrollBar().getSize().width, pref_height);
setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED);
return dim;
}
};
jsp.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.green, 5));
JPanel outerPanel = new JPanel();
outerPanel.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.RED, 5));
outerPanel.add(jsp);
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
JDesktopPane jdp = new JDesktopPane();
frame.add(jdp);
jdp.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(800, 600));
frame.pack();
JInternalFrame jif = new JInternalFrame("Title", true, true, true, true);
jif.pack();
jif.add(outerPanel);
jdp.add(jif);
jif.pack();
jif.setVisible(true);
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
}
I want the JScrollPane
to resize whenever the parent JPanel
is resized. Basically, I want the green border to line up with the red border. Right now, the green border stays the same size no matter the red border (unless you resize too small).
JPanel outerPanel = new JPanel();
A JPanel uses a FlowLayout by default which always respects the size of the component added to it. As a guess, maybe you can use:
JPanel outerPanel = new JPanel( new BorderLayout() );
A BorderLayout
give all the space available to the component added to the panel. By default a JInternalFrame also uses a BorderLayout. So since all the parent components of your scroll pane use a BorderLayout all the space should go to the scroll pane.
When you post a SSCCE you should post code using classes from the JDK that simulates your problem so that everybody can test your SSCCE.
I noticed this did not have an answer that uses the original layout so here is one.
In order to make the JScrollPane
resize when the parent JPanel
is resized you need to do two things.
1) Set the layout of the panel to grow. This can be using the following code.
new MigLayout("", //Layout Constraints
"grow", //Column Constraints
"grow"); //Row Constraints
2) Set the component to grow. This is as simple as adding an extra argument in the add()
function.
add(jsp, "grow");
Extra
In order to make the JTextArea
column grow when you resize the JScrollPane
you can change the layout to only make the second column change. For example
new MigLayout("", //Layout Constraints
"[/*Column 1*/][grow /*Column 2*/]", //Column Constraints
""); //Row Constraints
Also, I would recommend you use wrap
instead of span
to use the next row as span
refers using so many columns. For example span 2 //Means use 2 columns for this component
. This would mean when you add your jsp
to innerPanel
it would become
innerPanel.add(jsp, "wrap, grow");
Edited SSSCE
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
import net.miginfocom.swing.MigLayout;
public class JSPR extends JFrame {
public static final int pref_height = 500;
public static void main(String[] args) {
JPanel innerPanel = new JPanel(new MigLayout("", "[][grow]", ""));
innerPanel.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.YELLOW, 5));
for(int i = 0; i < 15; i++) {
JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea();
textArea.setColumns(20);
textArea.setRows(5);
textArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
textArea.setLineWrap(true);
JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(textArea);
innerPanel.add(new JLabel("Notes" + i));
innerPanel.add(jsp, "wrap, grow");
}
JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(innerPanel) {
@Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
Dimension dim = new Dimension(super.getPreferredSize().width + getVerticalScrollBar().getSize().width, pref_height);
setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED);
return dim;
}
};
jsp.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.green, 5));
JPanel outerPanel = new JPanel(new MigLayout("", "grow", "grow"));
outerPanel.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.RED, 5));
outerPanel.add(jsp, "grow");
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
JDesktopPane jdp = new JDesktopPane();
frame.add(jdp);
jdp.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(800, 600));
frame.pack();
JInternalFrame jif = new JInternalFrame("Title", true, true, true, true);
jif.pack();
jif.add(outerPanel);
jdp.add(jif);
jif.pack();
jif.setVisible(true);
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
}
}