Home/ Questions/Q 993679
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-16T06:27:44+00:00

Before anything, I should admit that I am completely a newbie about Java Swing.

  • 0

Before anything, I should admit that I am completely a newbie about Java Swing.

I am trying to create an application that lists emails similar to the way that Empathy displays a conversation.

What I want to achieve is like this: http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5356/emailsx.png

They are going to be clickable.

The thing I have done was getting a JPanel on top of a JScrollPane, making the JPanel have GridLayout and trying to add components dynamically, but it looks plain ugly. Is there a way to do it in Swing or should I resort to using graphical images for the task? Also, how would I fix text placement if I used graphical images?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    I had problems with resizing in almost every layout manager. Finally I made something similar by designing a custom JPanel for a message. Then I added this custom JPanel dynamically using GroupLayout for each of the messages.

    For the horizontal layout, I used ParallelGroup; and for the vertical layout, I used SequentialGroup.

    • 0