I am using miglayout to create a form in which there are JTextFields (short input answers) as well as JTextAreas (Longer answers). The problem is twofold.
- The border placed around a Scrollpane wrapped text area does not match that of a Text Field.
- The width and placement of the textarea/textfield differ, causing them not to line up correctly.
After changing from right/left to right/fill:
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You can see that the bounds line up, but that there are still gaps. I tried setting novisualpadding but this did not fix it.
Source code:
package test2;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import net.miginfocom.swing.MigLayout;
public class Test extends JPanel {
private static final int NUM_CHARACTERS_WIDTH = 20;
private static final int NUM_ROWS = 5;
public Test() {
setLayout(new MigLayout(
"wrap 2",
// Align text labels on the so their right edge meets left edge of the text fields
"[right][left]"
));
add(new JLabel("Text field:"));
add(new JTextField(NUM_CHARACTERS_WIDTH));
add(new JLabel("No scrollpane text area:"));
add(new JTextArea(NUM_ROWS, NUM_CHARACTERS_WIDTH));
add(new JLabel("Scrollpane text area:"));
add(new JScrollPane(new JTextArea(NUM_ROWS, NUM_CHARACTERS_WIDTH)));
add(new JLabel("Text field:"));
add(new JTextField(NUM_CHARACTERS_WIDTH));
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JPanel panel = new Test();
frame.add(panel);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
What’s the preferred way to mix and match jtextfield and jtextareas, while still maintaining visual harmony? I notice now that the text field has a blue highlight around it when focus is in it, as opposed to the text area… another source of visual discontinuity.
The answer is that MiG Layout folks are working on a fix for their next version.