Taskbar-like container

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Hello,

I want to write a container that behaves much like Windows taskbar: a
bunch of JButtons will be added and removed during runtime, and
everytime a new JButton is added, the others need the reduce their
size (even if this means cropping the label) to give space to the new
JButton.

I tried all available swing layouts, but none of them seem to do the
trick, so I suppose I have to do it by programming. My question is:
which layout should I use? And: any hints about that?

Regards,

André

 

[Andrew Thompson]

André Wagner wrote:
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I want to write a container that behaves much like Windows taskbar: a
bunch of JButtons will be added and removed during runtime, and
everytime a new JButton is added, the others need the reduce their
size (even if this means cropping the label) to give space to the new
JButton.

I tried all available swing layouts, ...

Most of the layouts are AWT.

...but none of them seem to do the
trick, so I suppose I have to do it by programming. My question is:
which layout should I use? And: any hints about that?

(java.awt.)GridLayout

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(java.awt.)GridLayout

It really did the trick! The only one I didn't tested... :|

Thank you very much!

André