Question

I’m working on a board game and I’d like the board to be a square docked West with dimension frameHeight x frameHeight, and I’d like the sidepanel which is docked East to fill the remaining with.

Essentially:
West – frameHeight x frameHeight
East – remainingWidth x frameHeight

 _________________
|          |      |
|          |      |
|  WEST    | EAST |
|          |      |
|          |      |
|__________|______|

Using MigLayout at the moment I’m saying LARGE (west)’s height should be 100% but I’m not sure how to say width should equal 100% of parent height and have SMALL (east) fill the remaining width.

Anyone with a decent idea to approach this?

Answer 1

MiGLayout won’t let you use references for size constraints, but you can do it with the pos constraint:

add(panel, "id large, pos 0 0 container.h container.h");

This will add panel seemingly docked to the left edge, covering the entire height and with a width equal to its height.

You could then fill the remaining space with:

add(otherPanel, "pos large.x2 0 container.w container.h");