Light Table: aligning and sizing photos

I am looking for a comfortable possibility to make
single photo presentation sheets to give them to my
portrait clients. One sheet should contain several
photos in different sizes. Until yet I use the photo
book layouts - but this is not a really good solution
as it is annoying to make a book when I just need a
single sheet with some aligned photos in different
sizes on it. Aligning position and sizes of photos on
the light table does not work really fine.
any ideas how I could solve my problem?
Well, there are a number of alignment options in the light table when you Control-Click (right click) on an image - you can select multiple images on the light table holding down Shift or Command, and then use the context menu option to align or redistribute images.
ABout the only thing that is not there is to make two images exactly the same size, for that you'll need to make use of the grid - if you zoom in it should be easier to get two images almost exactly the same size.

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The strange thing is I have another JPanel with a very similar structure (Border layout holding box holding 5 boxes), which does not ever seem to exhibit this problem. And also, the problem appears to occur only sometimes.
Anyone seen this before or understand what's going on? I've posted the code. The first block is the constructor for the main JPanel with BorderLayout. The second block is the code for the individual "Product" panels. These are added to the "productListBox" (see below) by a separate SwingWorker thread, after the JPanel has been constructed. The third block is the doInBackground method of that SwingWorker.
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jduprez
You have solved the problem inadvertently
No. Twice no.
1) You have solved the problem. Not me. I just gave a push in the (apparently) right direction. You deserve more credits.
2) Take my word for it, this was anything but inadvertently . Indeed it's a well-known trait of the SSCCE "methodology", that the developer often discovers the origin of the problem, and hopefully finds the solution as well.
- If you demonstrate the problem in shorter code, means there are less suspects to investigate.
- If you don't, then you start adding things to look more than the real program, one thing at a time, until you find one thing that introduces the problem.
I'm not promoting SSCCE to prevent or refrain people from posting questions in the forum. I'm a addict of this forum, and I'm the first one frustrated when there are no questions here.
It's just that using SSCCE often eliminates trivial problem before they have to be worded here, and leaves mostly interesting problems to investigate. And for those, having a complete runnable example is easier to copy/paste in an IDE to try out and play with.
I made up an SSCCE as you said. Because I did not want to have to bother with accessing Google Shopping (which is where the program gets the product information) i made a bunch of fake productions, all called "Xbox 360". Everything was fine.Excellent (and straight to the point of the methodology).
You then witnessed that the problem was not where you thought it were initially (I'm stretching your words a bit for the purpose of the demonstration, but it required a combination of code and certain data to exhibit the problem).
It turned out that it was the Title JLabel of the individual product information panels that was causing it to stretch beyond its bounds. I didn't pick up on it, because the problem arose even if the JLabel text didn't take up the entire width of the panel - once it got about 2/3 of the way across, the width would increase.I'm surprised again. Don't you have another widget on the same "line", in addition to the label?
But I trust your findings (without an SSCCE I can't commit myself :o)
I'll try switching to a multiline text holder so that the text can wrap around.Yes, that sounds sensible for such a thing as "product information".
Thank you, jduprez. I'll remember to post a SSCCE next time I have an issue.Great. I'm glad you solved your problem, and I'm glad I haven't deterred you from posting at all! :o)
Darryl: thank you for clearning that up. I've been confused as to which one to use.Yes.
I will post something one of these days to have that cleared up (the tutorial recommends to brutally call revalidate()repaint()+ , but I think that's exagerated: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/howLayoutWorks.html, http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/problems.html)
Edited by: jduprez on May 13, 2011 1:50 PM

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