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Sep 15th, 2009
I'm toying around with Java trying to familiarize myself with the basic GUI stuff. I can't get my program or my text field inside of it to center on the screen.

For the Simple... file, I've tried using the
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  1. theTextArea.setLocation(15, 30);
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  1. //theTextArea.setAlignmentX(CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
  2.           //theTextArea.setAlignmentY(CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
seperately. When I have either of them as active code and not comments, it throws an error and won't even run the program. What am I missing here?

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  1. //mainForSimpleGUI.java
  2.  
  3. import javax.swing.*;
  4. import java.awt.*;
  5.  
  6. public class mainForSimpleGUI
  7. {
  8.     public static void main(String[] args)
  9.     {
  10.         SimpleJavaGUI labelFrame = new SimpleJavaGUI(); //creates SimpleJavaGUI
  11.         //labelFrame = new JLabel();
  12.         labelFrame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
  13.         labelFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
  14.         labelFrame.setSize(300, 300);
  15.         labelFrame.setVisible(true);
  16.     }
  17.  
  18. }


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  1. //SimpleJavaGUI.java
  2.  
  3. import java.awt.*;
  4. import javax.swing.*;
  5.  
  6.  
  7. public class SimpleJavaGUI extends JFrame
  8. {
  9.     private JTextArea theTextArea;
  10.  
  11.     public SimpleJavaGUI()
  12.     {
  13.         super("mainForSimpleGUI");
  14.         setLayout(new FlowLayout() );
  15.  
  16.         theTextArea.setLocation(15, 30);
  17.         //theTextArea.setAlignmentX(CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
  18.         //theTextArea.setAlignmentY(CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
  19.         theTextArea = new JTextArea(2, 20);
  20.         theTextArea.setText(" Follow the white rabbit.");
  21.         theTextArea.setToolTipText("This is a text area.");
  22.         theTextArea.setEditable(false);
  23.         theTextArea.setDisabledTextColor(Color.BLACK);
  24.         theTextArea.setLineWrap(true);
  25.         theTextArea.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.black) );
  26.         add(theTextArea);
  27.     }
  28. }
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Re: Centering Issues

 
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Use line 19 before 16 and 17. You are not initializing the theTextArea.
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Okay, I changed that. For whatever reason, it's not showing the text area at all now. Here's how it looks now (I commented out any location-oriented lines just to try and "dumb" it down and figure out why my text area vanished):

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  1. //SimpleJavaGUI.java
  2.  
  3. import java.awt.*;
  4. import javax.swing.*;
  5.  
  6.  
  7. public class SimpleJavaGUI extends JFrame
  8. {
  9.     private JTextArea theTextArea;
  10.  
  11.     public SimpleJavaGUI()
  12.     {
  13.         super("mainForSimpleGUI");
  14.         setLayout(new FlowLayout() );
  15.  
  16.         theTextArea = new JTextArea(2, 15);
  17.         theTextArea.setLocation(50, 50);
  18.         //theTextArea.setAlignmentX(CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
  19.         //theTextArea.setAlignmentY(CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
  20.         theTextArea.setText(" Follow the white rabbit.");
  21.         theTextArea.setToolTipText("This is a text area.");
  22.         theTextArea.setEditable(false);
  23.         theTextArea.setDisabledTextColor(Color.BLACK);
  24.         theTextArea.setLineWrap(true);
  25.         theTextArea.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.black) );
  26.         add(theTextArea);
  27.     }
  28. }
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  1.  
  2. import javax.swing.*;
  3.  
  4. import java.awt.*;
  5.  
  6.   public class mainForSimpleGUI
  7.   {
  8.       public static void main(String[] args)
  9.       {
  10.           SimpleJavaGUI labelFrame = new SimpleJavaGUI(); 
  11.           labelFrame = new SimpleJavaGUI();
  12.           labelFrame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
  13.           labelFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
  14.           labelFrame.setSize(300, 300);
  15.           labelFrame.setVisible(true);
  16.       }
  17.  
  18.   }
  19.  
  20.     @SuppressWarnings("serial")
  21. 	class SimpleJavaGUI extends JFrame
  22.   {
  23.       public  JTextArea theTextArea;
  24.  
  25.       public SimpleJavaGUI()
  26.       {
  27.           super("mainForSimpleGUI");
  28.           setLayout(new FlowLayout() );
  29.           theTextArea = new JTextArea(2, 20);
  30.           theTextArea.setLocation(15, 30);
  31.           theTextArea.setAlignmentX(CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
  32.           theTextArea.setAlignmentY(CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
  33.  
  34.           theTextArea.setText(" Follow the white rabbit.");
  35.           theTextArea.setToolTipText("This is a text area.");
  36.           theTextArea.setEditable(false);
  37.           theTextArea.setDisabledTextColor(Color.BLACK);
  38.           theTextArea.setLineWrap(true);
  39.           theTextArea.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.black) );
  40.           add(theTextArea);
  41.       }
  42.   }
I applied this and it is showing me the text area.
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Okay, what options are available to center items within a JFrame? I thought for sure that the setAlignmentX/Y would work for it. I don't understand why they're not working.
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