Scrolling Bar

[vaironl]

Hello Forum, Vaironl here.
I'm going to ask a question, that will most likely annoy you all, but first let me say this, I did some research but cannot use a Jscrollbar efficiently.

That being said, I want to give more details.

I'm trying to add a scrollbar to a panel which is going to contain JLabels and JTextFields.
It will contain 40 of each ones.
It should be set to the East.
I only need a vertical scrollbar since this will be a test only.

I actually am making a test program instead of my main project for testing purposes, since it has worked before this way when I had any problems.
Here is the test with the things I'm doing wrong.

Main class

import javax.swing.*;


public class Driver {

	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		Frame frame = new Frame();

	}

}

Panel

import java.awt.Color;

import javax.swing.*;

public class Panel extends JPanel{


	JTextField field[] = new JTextField[40];
	public Panel()
	{

		setBackground(Color.red);
		for(int i=0;i<40;i++)
		{
			field[i] = new JTextField(40);
			field[i].setText("Field["+(i+1)+"]");
			add(field[i]);
		}
	}

}

Frame

import java.awt.BorderLayout;

import javax.swing.*;

public class Frame extends JFrame
{

	JScrollBar ver = new JScrollBar(JScrollBar.VERTICAL);
	
	Panel panel = new Panel();
	public Frame()
	{
		super("Testing Scroller");
		setLayout(null);
		ver.setLocation(0,0);
		ver.setSize(400,500);
		panel.setSize(500,500);
		ver.add(panel);
		add(ver);
		setSize(800,600);
		setLocation(10,30);
		setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		setVisible(true);
	}

}

[JamesCherrill]

This is normally done by using a JScrollPane (which has the scroll bar(s) and handles all the sizing and scrolling activity). Just create your JPanel and place it in a JScrollPane. Here's the tutorial:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/scrollpane.html

[vaironl]

This is normally done by using a JScrollPane (which has the scroll bar(s) and handles all the sizing and scrolling activity). Just create your JPanel and place it in a JScrollPane. Here's the tutorial:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/scrollpane.html

Thanks for the reference, I have read the article before but for some reason I could not get it to work.
Once again thanks, I will now learn how to indent the things I need Once again thanks

[vaironl]

This is normally done by using a JScrollPane (which has the scroll bar(s) and handles all the sizing and scrolling activity). Just create your JPanel and place it in a JScrollPane. Here's the tutorial:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/scrollpane.html

hello once again JamesCherrill, and sorry to bother you at the moment.
I'm having a bit of trouble... I'm trying to set all of my labels etc to start at the left side, When I do c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.EAST;
there are no syntax errors but everything is centered.

[JamesCherrill]

It's hard/impossible to diagnose without more of the code. Is "c" the container or a label? Can you post the code that does the adding and setting of the GridBagLayout parameters?

[vaironl]

It's hard/impossible to diagnose without more of the code. Is "c" the container or a label? Can you post the code that does the adding and setting of the GridBagLayout parameters?

I will post only the variables and the part in which it's being used since the file its fairly long.

private JPanel subPanel = new JPanel(); // Ingredients Panel
	private JScrollPane scroller = new JScrollPane(subPanel); // scrollpane for ingredients

//ingredients
		scroller.setSize(width-500,200);
		scroller.setLocation(ingrScrollPosx+10, ingrScrollPosy);
		subPanel.setBackground(Color.red);
		subPanel.setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
		GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();
		c.gridx =0;
		c.gridy =0;
		c.fill = c.EAST;
		for(int i=0;i<ingredientsLabel.length;i++)
		{
			ingredientsLabel[i] = new JLabel("Ingredient"+(i+1)+":");
			ingredientsField[i] = new JTextField(25);
			ingredientsLabel[i].setSize(30,15);
		}
		for(int i=0;i<ingredientsLabel.length;i++)
		{
			c.gridx++;
			subPanel.add(ingredientsLabel[i], c);
			c.gridx++;
			subPanel.add(ingredientsField[i], c);
			if(c.gridx==2)
			{
				c.gridx=0;
				c.gridy++;
			}			
		}

		add(scroller);

[JamesCherrill]

EAST is right, use WEST for left.
Leave fill at its default (none) and anchor WEST and see if that helps

[vaironl]

EAST is right, use WEST for left.
Leave fill at its default (none) and anchor WEST and see if that helps

Sorry for that, I tried that yesterday and now... still it will not work.