Slick

SlickLayout: Java Swing Layout Manager

Get the jar file: SlickLayout-0.91.jar

Mix horizontally and vertically scaled components with fixed size components in a single layout. Add a component by specifying a row and its scaling constraints. In a single row, components are layed out in order of insertion.

Examples

App Top Level Layout

• The header is fixed height (64) but grows horizontally to fill the width of the frame.
• The navbar is fixed width (200) but grows vertically to fill the height of the frame.
• The contentPanel has no fixed dimensions. It will fill the as much space as it can.

JPanel header = new ColorPanel( Color.decode("#C6C6C6"), new Dimension(900, 64) ); 
JPanel navbar = new ColorPanel( Color.decode("#444444"), new Dimension(200, 550) );
JPanel contentPanel = new ColorPanel( Color.decode("#EEEEEE"), new Dimension(700, 550) );

JFrame frame = new JFrame("Example App Layout");
frame.setLayout( new SlickLayout() ); 
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); 

//first row
frame.add( header, new SlickConstraint(0, SlickConstraint.HorizontalFill, SlickConstraint.VerticalPack) );

//second row
frame.add( navbar, new SlickConstraint(1, SlickConstraint.HorizontalPack, SlickConstraint.VerticalFill) );
frame.add( contentPanel, new SlickConstraint(1, SlickConstraint.HorizontalFill, SlickConstraint.VerticalFill) );

frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);

Layout Test

• The following JFrame is set up while testing the layout manager: