Re: visad display won't resize

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• Subject: Re: visad display won't resize
• From: Donna L Gresh <gresh@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:55:01 -0500

Thank you --
This worked perfectly.

Donna L. Gresh, Ph.D.
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
(914) 945-2472
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/g/donnagresh
gresh@xxxxxxxxxx




                                                                                
                                                     
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Donna-

By default, JPanel has a FlowLayout which causes the problems
you see.  Try using a BorderLayout and put your display in
the default (Center) position.

Not that it is obvious, but here's somethings in the archives
along that line:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/msgout?/glimpse/visad-list/2522
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/msgout?/glimpse/visad-list/1843

Don

Donna L Gresh wrote:
>
>
>
> I have looked in the mailing list without luck in solving this problem.
> Basically, I just want to have the visad panel resize when my application
> panel resize. This works in the first implementation of my application,
> where all of the visad stuff is in the same class as the entire JFrame
> which encloses it. However, since I didn't want to keep reinventing the
> wheel everytime I wanted to put a particular kind of visad picture in a
> panel, I separated out all the visad stuff into a separate class, called
> "DisplayThreeDimensionalSurface" which extends the JPanel class. Just
> before finishing up the constructor for this class, I do a
>
>    add((JPanel) theDisplay.getComponent());
>
>  However, now the display no longer responds to changes in the size of
the
> panel which contains it. It stays the same size no matter what (I'm not
> sure what size it is; perhaps 400x400, but this is not a number that
> appears anywhere in my code)
>
> Basically in my code for the frame containing the picture I do something
> like
>      DisplayThreeDimensionalSurface threed = new
> DisplayThreeDimensionalSurface();
>      JPanel visadpictureholder = new JPanel();
>       visadpictureholder.add(threed);
>
>       However even explicit calls to "visadpictureholder.resize(200,200)"
> do nothing. Also I tried when the DisplayThreeDimensionalSurface is
> initially created to do
>
>        theDisplay.getComponent().setSize(100,100);
>        this.setSize(100,100);
>        this.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100,100));
>
> none of which changed the initial size of the visad picture. How can I
> force the size of the visad picture?
> Thanks in advance for any help
> Donna
>
>
>
> Donna L. Gresh, Ph.D.
> IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
> (914) 945-2472
> http://www.research.ibm.com/people/g/donnagresh
> gresh@xxxxxxxxxx
>

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