How do I add a break to put my "Make pokemon" buttons and textarea not in the same row as my "Pokemon choice." I'm trying to put an empty JLabel, but I don't think it works.
public class PokemonPanel extends JPanel {
private JLabel lTitle = new JLabel("Pokemon");
private JLabel lMsg = new JLabel(" ");
private JButton bDone = new JButton(" Make Pokemon ");
private JButton bClear = new JButton(" Clear ");
private JPanel topSubPanel = new JPanel();
private JPanel centerSubPanel = new JPanel();
private JPanel bottomSubPanel = new JPanel();
private GUIListener listener = new GUIListener();
private Choice chSpe = new Choice();
private JLabel lEmp = new JLabel(" ");
private PokemonGUILizylf st;
private final int capacity = 10;
private PokemonGUILizylf[ ] stArr = new PokemonGUILizylf[capacity];
private int count = 0;
private String sOut = new String("");
private JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea(400, 500);
private JTextArea textArea2 = new JTextArea(400, 500);
private JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(textArea,JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED,
JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
public PokemonPanel() {
this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
this.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 500));
topSubPanel.setBackground(Color.cyan);
centerSubPanel.setBackground(Color.white);
bottomSubPanel.setBackground(Color.white);
topSubPanel.add(lTitle);
this.add("North", topSubPanel);
JLabel lSpe = new JLabel("Pokemon Available: ");
JLabel lEmp = new JLabel(" ");
JLabel lNew = new JLabel("New Pokemon: ");
//add choices to the choice dropdown list
chSpe.add("Choose");
chSpe.add("Bulbasaur");
chSpe.add("Venusaur");
chSpe.add("Ivysaur");
chSpe.add("Squirtle");
chSpe.add("Wartortle");
chSpe.add("Blastoise");
chSpe.add("Charmander");
chSpe.add("Charmeleon");
chSpe.add("Charizard");
centerSubPanel.add(lSpe);
centerSubPanel.add(chSpe);
centerSubPanel.add(lEmp);
centerSubPanel.add(bDone);
centerSubPanel.add(lNew);
textArea.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(500, 200));
textArea.setEditable(false);
textArea2.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(500, 200));
textArea2.setEditable(false);
textArea.setBackground(Color.white);
textArea.setEditable(false);
scroll.setBorder(null);
centerSubPanel.add(scroll); //add scrollPane to panel, textArea inside.
scroll.getVerticalScrollBar().setPreferredSize(new Dimension(10, 0));
add("Center", centerSubPanel);
bottomSubPanel.add(lMsg);
bDone.addActionListener(listener); //add listener to button
bottomSubPanel.add(bClear);
bClear.addActionListener(listener); //add listener to button
//add bottomSubPanel sub-panel to South area of main panel
add("South", bottomSubPanel);
}
This is what my GUI looks like:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.GridBagConstraints;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.Insets;
import javax.swing.DefaultComboBoxModel;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new Test();
}
public Test() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.add(new PokemonPanel());
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
public class PokemonPanel extends JPanel {
private JLabel lTitle = new JLabel("Pokemon");
// private JLabel lMsg = new JLabel(" ");
private JButton bDone = new JButton("Make Pokemon ");
private JButton bClear = new JButton("Clear");
private JPanel topSubPanel = new JPanel();
private JPanel centerSubPanel = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout());
private JPanel bottomSubPanel = new JPanel();
// private GUIListener listener = new GUIListener();
private JComboBox<String> chSpe = new JComboBox<>();
private JLabel lEmp = new JLabel(" ");
// private PokemonGUILizylf st;
private final int capacity = 10;
// private PokemonGUILizylf[] stArr = new PokemonGUILizylf[capacity];
// private int count = 0;
// private String sOut = new String("");
// private JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea(400, 500);
// private JTextArea textArea2 = new JTextArea(400, 500);
//
// private JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(textArea, JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED,
// JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
public PokemonPanel() {
this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
// this.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 500));
topSubPanel.setBackground(Color.cyan);
centerSubPanel.setBackground(Color.white);
bottomSubPanel.setBackground(Color.white);
topSubPanel.add(lTitle);
this.add("North", topSubPanel);
JLabel lSpe = new JLabel("Pokemon Available: ");
JLabel lNew = new JLabel("New Pokemon: ");
//add choices to the choice dropdown list
DefaultComboBoxModel<String> chSpeModel= new DefaultComboBoxModel<>();
chSpeModel.addElement("Choose");
chSpeModel.addElement("Bulbasaur");
chSpeModel.addElement("Venusaur");
chSpeModel.addElement("Ivysaur");
chSpeModel.addElement("Squirtle");
chSpeModel.addElement("Wartortle");
chSpeModel.addElement("Blastoise");
chSpeModel.addElement("Charmander");
chSpeModel.addElement("Charmeleon");
chSpeModel.addElement("Charizard");
chSpe.setModel(chSpeModel);
centerSubPanel.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(4, 4, 4, 4));
GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints();
gbc.gridx = 0;
gbc.gridy = 0;
gbc.insets = new Insets(4, 4, 4, 4);
gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.LINE_END;
centerSubPanel.add(lSpe, gbc);
gbc.gridx ;
gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.CENTER;
gbc.gridwidth = GridBagConstraints.REMAINDER;
centerSubPanel.add(chSpe);
gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTH;
gbc.gridwidth = 1;
gbc.gridx = 0;
gbc.gridy ;
centerSubPanel.add(bDone, gbc);
gbc.gridx ;
gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.FIRST_LINE_END;
centerSubPanel.add(lNew, gbc);
gbc.gridx ;
gbc.gridheight = gbc.REMAINDER;
centerSubPanel.add(new JScrollPane(new JTextArea(10, 10)), gbc);
// textArea.setEditable(false);
// textArea2.setEditable(false);
//
// textArea.setBackground(Color.white);
// textArea.setEditable(false);
// scroll.setBorder(null);
// centerSubPanel.add(scroll); //add scrollPane to panel, textArea inside.
// scroll.getVerticalScrollBar().setPreferredSize(new Dimension(10, 0));
add("Center", centerSubPanel);
// bottomSubPanel.add(lMsg);
// bDone.addActionListener(listener); //add listener to button
bottomSubPanel.add(bClear);
// bClear.addActionListener(listener); //add listener to button
//add bottomSubPanel sub-panel to South area of main panel
add("South", bottomSubPanel);
}
}
}
Also, avoid using setPreferredSize, let the layout managers do their job. In the example I'm used insets (from GridBagConstraints) and an EmptyBorder to add some additional space around the components
Also, be careful of using AWT components (ie Choice), they don't always play nicely with Swing. In this case, you should be using JComboBox