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Are there any constants in Swing to indicate a big enough(or ignored) size of dimension(height or width)?

I'm new to java, and here's a question I can't find the answer in Java doc and Google.

In my case, I want wanna restrict the height(just height) of a panel(which nested in a panel with BoxLayout), so I add codes like below:

p2.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(10000, 30));

It works fine until then.

The problem is that the numeric 10000 is some kid of ugly as you can see.

I want to know are there any constants to indicate a big enough number so I can replace the number 10000 with one of them. Or maybe are there any other better ways I can make it?

Solution

  • Unless I'm missing something, you could use Integer.MAX_VALUE like so,

    p2.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(Integer.MAX_VALUE, 30));

    There are many possible solutions, another is to use the Screen Height, for example

    GraphicsDevice gd = 
    GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getDefaultScreenDevice();
int maxHeight = gd.getDisplayMode().getHeight();