Adjust border size

Question

anyone know how to change the border dimensions for the set of buttons? for the image the border is fine but for the buttons it takes up half the frame where the buttons only take up a quarter of the frame
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
public class TestImageIcon extends JFrame{
    private ImageIcon myicon = new ImageIcon("C:/Users/Documents/NetBeansProjects/OOPjava/src/Chapter15/image/my.jpg");
    private JButton okbt = new JButton("OK");
    private JButton cancelbt = new JButton("Cancel");
    public TestImageIcon(){
        JPanel p2 = new JPanel();
        p2.setLayout(new GridLayout(1,1,10,20));
        p2.add(new JLabel(myicon));
        okbt.setForeground(Color.ORANGE);
        okbt.setBackground(Color.red);
        JPanel p1 = new JPanel();
        p1.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        p1.add(okbt);
        p1.add(cancelbt);
        p1.setBorder(new TitledBorder("Two Buttons"));
        p2.setBorder(new TitledBorder("My picture"));
      setLayout(new GridLayout(2, 1, 5, 5));
      add(p2);
      add(p1);
    public static void main(String[] args){
      TestImageIcon frame = new TestImageIcon();
      frame.setTitle("TestImageIcon");
      frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null); // Center the frame
      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      frame.setSize(300, 300);
      frame.setVisible(true);
} Edited by: 87654321 on 07-Sep-2011 06:12

Answer 1

Don't use a GridLayout for the content pane of the frame. The GridLayout makes all components the same size.
Use the BorderLayout which is the default layout for a frame anyway.
//setLayout(new GridLayout(2, 1, 5, 5));
//add(p2);
//add(p1);
add(p2, BorderLayout.CENTER);
add(p1, BorderLayout.NORTH);