Question

Scala is an awesome language, but unfortunately the library documentation is lacking. How do I change the initial size of a component? I have nothing on it (intentionally), but would like it to be a certain size anyway. I currently have

...
contents = new BoxPanel(Orientation.Vertical) {
    contents += new BoxPanel(Orientation.Horizontal) {
        contents += buttons(0)
        contents += buttons(1)
        contents += buttons(2)
    }
    contents += new BoxPanel(Orientation.Horizontal) {
        contents += buttons(3)
        contents += buttons(4)
        contents += buttons(5)
    }
    contents += new BoxPanel(Orientation.Horizontal) {
        contents += buttons(6)
        contents += buttons(7)
        contents += buttons(8)
    }
    border = Swing.EmptyBorder(10, 10, 10, 10);
}
...

buttons is an array of scala.swing.Buttons. Unfortunately they all show up very small when the application is run. I’d like them to be about 60×60 pixels each, though any reasonably large square would suffice.

Answer 1

Have you tried setting a preferred size on the buttons?

buttons foreach { _.preferredSize = new Dimension(60, 60) }