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Asked: 2026-05-28T02:13:31+00:00

I’m making Minesweeper as a school project. It’s close to completion, but the only

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I’m making Minesweeper as a school project. It’s close to completion, but the only problem now is setting JFrame’s size. I just can’t figure out a way to set frames to the size I want.

The program looks almost like a Swing version of the original Minesweeper on Windows XP.

The main frame’s layout is flow layout. There’s a top panel for the time, mines, and reset button. The top panel’s using flow layout, and the bottom panel’s using grid layout for the buttons.

I set the preferred size of the frame’s content pane. Getting the width is easy (The numbers of fields in a row * my button size), but the problem is getting the height right. The frame always go down to the 2nd last row of the minefield.

I also tried pack() but it resizes it to the preferred size of the content pane, which isn’t the right size to begin with. What can I do?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Don’t have the JFrame (or better its contentPane) use FlowLayout since this won’t give the JFrame the best size for its components. Instead why not have it use the default BorderLayout? Your mine cell’s will probably have their getPreferredSize() method overridden and thus will direct the size of the enclosing containers. As always, call pack() on the JFrame after filling it with components and before calling setVisible(true) on it.

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