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Positions five components within a container, using weights, fill, and relative positioning
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/*
 * ContainerEventDemo.java requires no other files.
 */

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.GridBagConstraints;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ContainerEvent;
import java.awt.event.ContainerListener;
import java.util.Vector;

import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;

public class ContainerEventDemo extends JPanel implements ContainerListener, ActionListener {
  JTextArea display;

  JPanel buttonPanel;

  JButton addButton, removeButton, clearButton;

  Vector<JButton> buttonList;

  static final String ADD = "add";

  static final String REMOVE = "remove";

  static final String CLEAR = "clear";

  static final String newline = "\n";

  public ContainerEventDemo() {
    super(new GridBagLayout());
    GridBagLayout gridbag = (GridBagLayout) getLayout();
    GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();

    // Initialize an empty list of buttons.
    buttonList = new Vector<JButton>(10, 10);

    // Create all the components.
    addButton = new JButton("Add a button");
    addButton.setActionCommand(ADD);
    addButton.addActionListener(this);

    removeButton = new JButton("Remove a button");
    removeButton.setActionCommand(REMOVE);
    removeButton.addActionListener(this);

    buttonPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(1, 1));
    buttonPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200, 75));
    buttonPanel.addContainerListener(this);

    display = new JTextArea();
    display.setEditable(false);
    JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(display);
    scrollPane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200, 75));

    clearButton = new JButton("Clear text area");
    clearButton.setActionCommand(CLEAR);
    clearButton.addActionListener(this);

    c.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH; // Fill entire cell.
    c.weighty = 1.0; // Button area and message area have equal height.
    c.gridwidth = GridBagConstraints.REMAINDER; // end of row
    gridbag.setConstraints(scrollPane, c);
    add(scrollPane);

    c.weighty = 0.0;
    gridbag.setConstraints(clearButton, c);
    add(clearButton);

    c.weightx = 1.0; // Add/remove buttons have equal width.
    c.gridwidth = 1; // NOT end of row
    gridbag.setConstraints(addButton, c);
    add(addButton);

    c.gridwidth = GridBagConstraints.REMAINDER; // end of row
    gridbag.setConstraints(removeButton, c);
    add(removeButton);

    c.weighty = 1.0; // Button area and message area have equal height.
    gridbag.setConstraints(buttonPanel, c);
    add(buttonPanel);

    setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 400));
    setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(20, 20, 20, 20));
  }

  public void componentAdded(ContainerEvent e) {
    displayMessage(" added to ", e);
  }

  public void componentRemoved(ContainerEvent e) {
    displayMessage(" removed from ", e);
  }

  void displayMessage(String action, ContainerEvent e) {
    display.append(((JButton) e.getChild()).getText() + " was" + action
        + e.getContainer().getClass().getName() + newline);
    display.setCaretPosition(display.getDocument().getLength());
  }

  /*
   * This could have been implemented as two or three classes or objects, for
   * clarity.
   */
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    String command = e.getActionCommand();

    if (ADD.equals(command)) {
      JButton newButton = new JButton("JButton #" + (buttonList.size() + 1));
      buttonList.addElement(newButton);
      buttonPanel.add(newButton);
      buttonPanel.revalidate(); // Make the button show up.

    } else if (REMOVE.equals(command)) {
      int lastIndex = buttonList.size() - 1;
      try {
        JButton nixedButton = buttonList.elementAt(lastIndex);
        buttonPanel.remove(nixedButton);
        buttonList.removeElementAt(lastIndex);
        buttonPanel.revalidate(); // Make the button disappear.
        buttonPanel.repaint(); // Make the button disappear.
      } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException exc) {
      }
    } else if (CLEAR.equals(command)) {
      display.setText("");
    }
  }

  /**
   * Create the GUI and show it. For thread safety, this method should be
   * invoked from the event-dispatching thread.
   */
  private static void createAndShowGUI() {
    // Create and set up the window.
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("ContainerEventDemo");
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

    // Create and set up the content pane.
    JComponent newContentPane = new ContainerEventDemo();
    newContentPane.setOpaque(true); // content panes must be opaque
    frame.setContentPane(newContentPane);

    // Display the window.
    frame.pack();
    frame.setVisible(true);
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // Schedule a job for the event-dispatching thread:
    // creating and showing this application's GUI.
    javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
        createAndShowGUI();
      }
    });
  }
}








14.94.GridBagLayout
14.94.1.Using a GridBagLayout ManagerUsing a GridBagLayout Manager
14.94.2.Uses many featuresUses many features
14.94.3.Place a component at cell location (1,1)
14.94.4.Setting the Location of a Component in a GridBagLayout
14.94.5.Getting the Number of Rows and Columns of Cells in a GridBagLayout
14.94.6.Making a GridBagLayout Fill the Container
14.94.7.Setting the Stretchyness of Rows and Columns in a GridBagLayout Using Layout Weights
14.94.8.Place a component at (0,1) with a column weight 1 and a row weight of 2
14.94.9.Setting Stretchyness of a GridBagLayout Using Fill
14.94.10.Make the component on stretchable
14.94.11.Make the component only stretch horizontally
14.94.12.Make the component only stretch vertically
14.94.13.Make the component stretch in both directions
14.94.14.Setting the Space around a Component Within the Cell of the GridBagLayout Using Insets
14.94.15.Create and set a gridbag layout and how to set gridbag constraints
14.94.16.Associate the gridbag constraints with the component
14.94.17.Positions five components within a container, using weights, fill, and relative positioningPositions five components within a container, using weights, fill, and relative positioning
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