Question

I have noticed that running the program I’m listing below sometimes produces an unwanted effect.

EDIT: I’ve simplified the code to make things look clear. I’m drawing a String which prints out the current component size. I’ve overriden the getPrefferedSize() method in the Component class and set width and height to 640 x 512 respectively. However, I’m still getting different results after running the program: 640 x 512 and 650 x 522. Weird thing is removing the frame.setResizable(false) line fixes things. But I want the window to be resizable

import java.awt.*;

import javax.swing.*;

public class DrawTest
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable()
        {
            public void run()
            {
                DrawFrame frame = new DrawFrame();
                frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                frame.setResizable(false);
                frame.pack();
                frame.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}


class DrawFrame extends JFrame
{

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    public DrawFrame()
    {
        setTitle("DrawTest");
        setLocationByPlatform(true);
        Container contentPane = getContentPane();
        DrawComponent component = new DrawComponent();
        contentPane.add(component);
    }

}

class DrawComponent extends JComponent
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
        return new Dimension(640, 512);
    }

    public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
    {
        Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;         
        String msg = getWidth() + " x " + getHeight();      
        g2.setPaint(Color.BLUE);
        g2.drawString(msg, getWidth()/2, getHeight()/2);
    }
}

Answer 1

The call to setLocationByPlatform() must follow pack() and precede setVisible(), or the geometry will be wrong. Absent a reason to subclass JFrame, I have elided DrawFrame is the example below. Note the use of FontMetrics to keep the text centered as the enclosing container is resized. The approach is handy for learning layouts.

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class DrawTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                JFrame frame = new JFrame("DrawTest");
                frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                frame.add(new DrawComponent());
                frame.pack();
                frame.setLocationByPlatform(true);
                frame.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}

class DrawComponent extends JComponent {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Override
    public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
        return new Dimension(320, 240);
    }

    @Override
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
        String msg = getWidth() + " x " + getHeight();
        g2.setPaint(Color.BLUE);
        int w = (getWidth() - g.getFontMetrics().stringWidth(msg)) / 2;
        g2.drawString(msg, w, getHeight() / 2);
    }
}