Question

I have a GUI, which is based on Swing’s JPanelthat uses BorderLayout.In the north panel i have added a new JPanel which uses FlowLayout and contains two textField and other components.
When I change the text of textField and invisible some componets inside this panel, this textField keeps resizing. How can I avoid this? I would like the textField to keep the same size whatever happens. I’ve tried setSize, setPreferredSize, setMinimumSize with no success.

txtSource = new WebTextField(source);
    txtSource.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(30,20));
    txtSource.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(20, 20));
    txtSource.setEditable(false);
    txtDestination = new WebTextField(destination);
    txtDestination.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(30,20));
    txtDestination.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(20, 20));

before:

after:

Answer 1

you can’t do this like what you want, some LayoutManagers ignore for setXxxSize, but you can use f.e. BoxLayout that accepts for setXxxSize