I have a gui which has a Panel that contains a sequence of labels and TextFields and uses a spring layout(this is the mainPanel) and another Panel that just contains a button(buttonPanel). I am trying to make my mainPanel to have a vertical scrollbar as well. I would like to implement my GUI such that within the JFrame I have 2 panels. The mainPanel appears on the top of the frame and the buttonPanel appears below the mainPanel.
My problem is I am not able to make the Panels appear such that the buttonPanel is below the mainPanel and I am also not sure how to add a scrollbar to the mainPanel. Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT : I was able to solve my issue regarding the JPanels, now my only problem is that I cant get my mainPanel to scroll. I've added my most recent code below :
Here is the code I have so far:
public static void main(String args[]) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("SpringLayout");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane();
Container contentPane = frame.getContentPane();
JButton next = new JButton("Next");
JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel();
buttonPanel.add(next);
SpringLayout layout = new SpringLayout();
JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
mainPanel.setLayout(layout);
contentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
int j = 25;
for(int i =0;i<150;i++){
JLabel label = new JLabel("Enter Name " + i );
JTextField text = new JTextField(15);
mainPanel.add(label);
mainPanel.add(text);
layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.WEST, label, 10, SpringLayout.WEST,
contentPane);
layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.NORTH, label, j, SpringLayout.NORTH,
contentPane);
layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.NORTH, text, j, SpringLayout.NORTH,
contentPane);
layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.WEST, text, 20, SpringLayout.EAST,
label);
j+=30;
}
//mainPanel.setSize(500,800);
scroll.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(500,500));
scroll.setViewportView(mainPanel);
contentPane.add(scroll);
contentPane.add(buttonPanel,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
//mainWindow.add(contentPane);
frame.setSize(500, 600);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
To make it scrollable I just needed to increase the preferred size of my mainPanel such that it would be bigger than the scrollbar.
public static void main(String args[]) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("SpringLayout");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane();
Container contentPane = frame.getContentPane();
JButton next = new JButton("Next");
JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel();
buttonPanel.add(next);
SpringLayout layout = new SpringLayout();
JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
mainPanel.setLayout(layout);
contentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
int j = 25;
for(int i =0;i<18;i++){
JLabel label = new JLabel("Enter Name " + i );
JTextField text = new JTextField(15);
mainPanel.add(label);
mainPanel.add(text);
layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.WEST, label, 10, SpringLayout.WEST,
contentPane);
layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.NORTH, label, j, SpringLayout.NORTH,
contentPane);
layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.NORTH, text, j, SpringLayout.NORTH,
contentPane);
layout.putConstraint(SpringLayout.WEST, text, 20, SpringLayout.EAST,
label);
j+=30;
}
mainPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(mainPanel.getWidth(), 1500));
scroll.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(500,500));
scroll.setViewportView(mainPanel);
contentPane.add(scroll);
contentPane.add(buttonPanel,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
//mainWindow.add(contentPane);
frame.setSize(500, 600);
frame.setVisible(true);
}