Package eu.bandm.tools.graficUtils

Class MultiLineFlowLayout

java.lang.Object

java.awt.FlowLayout

eu.bandm.tools.graficUtils.MultiLineFlowLayout

All Implemented Interfaces:

LayoutManager, Serializable

public abstract class MultiLineFlowLayout
extends FlowLayout

Needed for the contents of the option arguments JPanel.
This contents is a sequence of widgets for data input (or groups thereof!), and they should "flow" in the lines which make up a block in the right half of the top-level "grid-bag".
(The normal "FlowLayout" from javax.swing does not respect a maximum size, but makes the container above grow beyond all limits, so no line break would ever happen.)

WE FOUND THIS CODE SOMEWHERE IN THE NET, BUT DID NOT MEMORIZE !?!?!
We tried to find it again (for reasons of acknowledgement), but failed.
((There is a DIFFERENT approach with the same name at

Copyright (c) 2007, Distributed Computing Group (DCG)
    ETH Zurich
    Switzerland
    dcg.ethz.ch
    

))
There is another alternative at http://softech.informatik.uni-kl.de/twiki/pub/Homepage/ProgrammBeispieleBuch/Programme-KooP-Buch/kap5/layoutManagen/TextLayout.java
Finally: https://svn2.assembla.com/svn/savant/MedSavant/branches/b5/MedSavant/src/org/ut/biolab/medsavant/view/swing/WrapLayout.java This seems derived from the same source as ours, but no acknowledgement either !?

See Also:

• Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class java.awt.FlowLayout

CENTER, LEADING, LEFT, RIGHT, TRAILING

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
MultiLineFlowLayout()
MultiLineFlowLayout(int align)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
abstract int	getPreferredLineWidth()
Dimension	minimumLayoutSize(Container target)
Dimension	preferredLayoutSize(Container target)

Methods inherited from class java.awt.FlowLayout

addLayoutComponent, getAlignment, getAlignOnBaseline, getHgap, getVgap, layoutContainer, removeLayoutComponent, setAlignment, setAlignOnBaseline, setHgap, setVgap, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

MultiLineFlowLayout

public MultiLineFlowLayout()

MultiLineFlowLayout

public MultiLineFlowLayout(int align)

Method Details

getPreferredLineWidth

public abstract int getPreferredLineWidth()

preferredLayoutSize

public Dimension preferredLayoutSize(Container target)

Specified by:

preferredLayoutSize in interface LayoutManager

Overrides:

preferredLayoutSize in class FlowLayout

minimumLayoutSize

public Dimension minimumLayoutSize(Container target)

Specified by:

minimumLayoutSize in interface LayoutManager

Overrides:

minimumLayoutSize in class FlowLayout