JFrame resizing

[carderne]

I currently have my JFrame set to be unresizable for simplicity's sake.

Now I want to set it to be ONLY vertically resizable but I only want two components to change (vertically) in size when this happens. I want everything else to remain exactly the same.

Can anyone help?

[carderne]

Bumpity bump.

[Fubarable]

Now I want to set it to be ONLY vertically resizable

You can set a JFrame's minimum size via setMinimumSize, but this doesn't work (as far as I know for maximum size). If you absolutely need maximum size, then you can use a ComponentListener similar to this one:

    // assuming panelWidth is some int, say 800
    addComponentListener(new ComponentAdapter() {
      @Override
      public void componentResized(ComponentEvent e) {
        Dimension size = ResizePanel.this.getSize();
        ResizePanel.this.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(panelWidth, size.height));
        frame.pack();
      }
    });

but it's kind of a kludge as it allows for a partial brief re-size of width before snapping back to the desired width.

but I only want two components to change (vertically) in size when this happens

You may wish to study your layout managers tutorial for this one. BoxLayout comes to mind here, and I think you'll want to set the maximumsize of your components.

[carderne]

Thanks. Maybe I'll make the JFrame completely resizable and then just set the maximum sizes for all of the components and not allow them to resize horizontally at all. SOLVED.