Gui Help ( toolbar )

[PieMan2004]

Greetings,
Ive came across problems while doing a tutorial work piece.

i've to design a toobar ( yup a JToolBar ) with 5 buttons inside it, that will do certain functions for a JSlider.( set them at certain values )

Its simple enough to go and write 5 buttons into my code, but thats not wot ive to do.

The idea is that you will develop one button that is customisable at design time to have one of 5 different appearances. Developing 5 separate buttons is NOT an acceptable solution.

Is this even possible? ( pls note the 5 different appearances are Symbals )

Problem: Placing 5 buttons inside a JToolBar, and positing it under my created JSlider

// bob smith 

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;


class Testing extends JFrame
{
  int min = 40;
  int max = 180;
  int value = min;

  JSlider slider = new JSlider(min,max,value);
  MyUI ui = new MyUI(slider);
  int tw,sw,startGap;

  public Testing(){

    setSize(250,100);
    setLocation(400,200);
    setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    slider.setUI(ui);
    slider.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter(){
      public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me)
      {
        slider.setValue(min+(max-min)*(me.getX()-startGap)/tw);
      }
    });
    slider.setMajorTickSpacing(20);
    slider.setMinorTickSpacing(10);
    slider.setPaintTicks(true);
    slider.setPaintLabels(true);
    getContentPane().add(slider);
    setVisible(true);
    tw = ui.getTrackWidth();
    sw = slider.getWidth();
    startGap = (sw-tw)/2;
  }
  public static void main(String args[]){new Testing();}
}
class MyUI extends javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicSliderUI
{
  public MyUI(JSlider js)
 {
   super(js);
 }
  public int getTrackWidth()
 {
    return (int)((Rectangle)trackRect).getWidth();
  }

}

Any help or guidance AT all, would be amazing :)

Thanks!

[jwenting]

Sure it's possible. You just have to correctly read your assignment.

Putting a JToolBar anywhere except on the edges of a window is however NOT possible.

[PieMan2004]

I looked through some of my old codes, and found something i thought would be useful.

Upon editing it i came up with this

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Container;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JToggleButton;
import javax.swing.JToolBar;

public class ToolBarTest {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    JFrame frame = new JFrame();
    Container contentPane = frame.getContentPane();
    JToolBar bar;
    bar = new JToolBar();
    JToggleButton jb;
    for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
      jb = new JToggleButton("" + i);
      bar.add(jb);

    }
    contentPane.add(bar, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    frame.setSize(300, 300);
    frame.show();
  }
}

So far my attempts to implement it into my code have failed.
Could anyone give me pointers? ( in my first code im using the light layout functions ( UI ) im afraid thats all ive been taught in so far :(

[jwenting]

That isn't what you're supposed to do.
Think subclassing the button to create one that has a custom constructor taking an argument telling it what incrememt or decrement it should apply to the slider and another argument passing a reference to the slider.