Question

I’m trying to set the size of a button to a specific size of pixels with minimumSize, but it looks like it doesn’t work.

I even tried to subclass it and do it this way

class SizedButton(text0: String, width0: Int, height0: Int) 
                                      extends Button(text0) {
  minimumSize = new Dimension(width0, height0)
  // also tried preferredSize here ...
}

but that didn’t work either.

Answer 1

It’s a bit hard to tell what you’re really trying to do, but generally sizing depends a lot on the layout manager you are using. Anyway the following fixes the size of a button e.g.:

import swing._
import java.awt.Dimension

val s = new Dimension(100, 100)
val f = new Frame {
  contents = new FlowPanel { 
    contents += new Button("huhu") { 
      minimumSize = s
      maximumSize = s
      preferredSize = s
    }
  }
}

f.pack
f.visible = true