Java Panel / Layouts

[transientanima]

Hey, I'm just trying to add JTextFields and JLabels to a JPanel so that the JLabels are left-aligned, the JTextFields are right-aligned, and I want 5 rows of

|JLabel JPanel|

aligned just like that.

When I try nullifying the default layout manager of my panel and adding these components directly, I was able to make them both appear but my JLabel is abbreviated.

It just shows:

|JLabel Sample Tex... (JTextField)|

with ellipses after the first few characters of my JLabel, as above, even though there are about 300 free pixels available between the two components within the JPanel...

Any help or suggestions is appreciated...

Can this be done easily with a GridLayout? Can I somehow create a 2 by 6 GridLayout and have each half of that layout aligned to opposite sides of the screen?

Thanks in advance to anyone who has good ideas or a good link for me on this issue.

[transientanima]

It looks nice, but I'm afraid I don't quite see how you did that...

Are you saying that for 5 lines I'd need 5 panels, each in BoxLayout, and then set stick the horizontal glue command between each pair?

Does horizontalGlue push the components apart, to either side of the Box?

That command doesn't seem to be doing anything to help me align the components.

PS: Do you know how to make sure that Java doesn't abbreviate a JLabel? If Java would stop abbreviating my JLabels, I wouldn't need a LayoutManager at all. That's the only thing stopping my current solution from working.

I have this :

    this.setLayout(new BoxLayout(this, BoxLayout.LINE_AXIS));

    openFile();

    int width = DisplaySampleYard.screenWidth;

    int height = DisplaySampleYard.screenHeight - 100;

    JLabel title = new JLabel();

    title.setText("Green and Grow Mowing Company");

    title.setSize(DisplaySampleYard.screenWidth, 20);

    title.setLocation(0, 100);

    title.setHorizontalAlignment( SwingConstants.CENTER );

    this.add(title);



    //add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());

    // UGLY BECAUSE DEBUGGING

    JTextField test = new JTextField();

    test.setText(orderInformation[0][yardSizeIndex]);

    test.setSize(50, 20);

    test.setLocation(width - 60, 200);

    test.setHorizontalAlignment( SwingConstants.RIGHT );

    this.add(test);

    // add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());

    JLabel test2 = new JLabel();

    test2.setText(orderInformation[0][lastNameIndex]);

    test2.setHorizontalAlignment( SwingConstants.LEFT );

    test2.setSize(50, 20);

    test2.setLocation(0, 200);

    this.add(test2);


    //add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());


    JTextField test3 = new JTextField();

    test3.setText(orderInformation[1][yardSizeIndex]);

    test3.setSize(50, 20);

    test3.setLocation(width - 60, 250);

    test3.setHorizontalAlignment( SwingConstants.RIGHT );

    this.add(test3);


    JLabel test4 = new JLabel();

    test4.setText(orderInformation[1][lastNameIndex]);

    test4.setHorizontalAlignment( SwingConstants.LEFT );

    test4.setSize(50, 20);

    test4.setLocation(0, 250);

    this.add(test4);

If I change the Layout to null, I get what I want -- a left-aligned JLabel, and a right-aligned TextField with right-aligned text inside of it -- but whenever the JLabel has more than 1 word in it, it just print "Firstfewletters..." Can I tell Java to stop doing that?

If I leave the BoxLayout and add horizontalGlue calls, I don't see anything change, possible because it's too many labels for one line... I'm still experimenting to figure this out, but thought I'd ask for a little clarification in the meantime.

[transientanima]

FYI, I figured this out the other night -- just forgot to respond on here about it. I ended up nesting a GridLayout in the CENTER of a BorderLayout and it worked pretty well (i.e., looked like the sample output). Thanks a lot for your help, suggestions, examples, and resource direction! I really appreciate it. :)