setBounds

[Kid Programmer]

Hello guys. I just tried out using the setBounds method after looking at it in the Java API under JButton (though any other component should have it) and so anyways I tried it out in a simple little program. But no matter how much I change the parameters the button never changes. Why is this?

[BigDaddyLH]

You should not explicitly set the bounds on any component. Rather, let the container's layout manager determine the components' bounds:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/index.html

[sukatoa]

But no matter how much I change the parameters the button never changes. Why is this?

You may set first the container's layout to null before you use setBounds....

regards,
sukatoa

[Kid Programmer]

You may set first the container's layout to null before you use setBounds....

regards,
sukatoa

I just found that out yesterday. setBounds was very useful in getting the exact layout I wanted.

[JosAH]

I just found that out yesterday. setBounds was very useful in getting the exact layout I wanted.

You shouldn't want that; think of different screen resolutions: your manual
layout goes completely berzerk on them, layout managers won't.

kind regards,

Jos

[BigDaddyLH]

You may set first the container's layout to null before you use setBounds....

regards,
sukatoa

I recommend against doing that.