It is difficult to describe what happens so here is a SSCCE:
public class TableInScrollPaneTest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
new TableInScrollPaneTest();
}
});
}
public TableInScrollPaneTest() {
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setSize(300, 300);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
LayoutManager layout;
layout = new MigLayout("wrap 1, fill", "fill, grow", "[fill, grow 1][fill, grow 2]");
//layout = new GridLayout(2,1);
JPanel panel = new JPanel(layout);
JPanel placeHolder = new JPanel();
JPanel placeHolder2 = new JPanel();
placeHolder.setBackground(Color.GRAY);
placeHolder2.setBackground(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
JTable table = this.createTable();
JScrollPane tableScrollPane = new JScrollPane(table,
JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED,
JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
//table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(new Dimension(5000,200));
panel.add(placeHolder, "");
panel.add(tableScrollPane, "");
//panel.add(placeHolder2, "");
frame.setContentPane(panel);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
private JTable createTable() {
String[] columnNames = "Name 1,Name 2,Name 3,Name 4,Name 5".split(",");
int rows = 30;
int cols = columnNames.length;
String[][] data = new String[rows][cols];
for(int i=0; i<rows; i++) {
for(int j=0; j<cols; j++) {
data[i][j] = "R"+i+" C"+j;
}
}
JTable table = new JTable(data, columnNames);
return table;
}
}
I want the scrollPane to use all available space when the frame gets resized by the user. But additionally I want another panel (placeHolder) to grow, too. For example the heigth of the frame divided by 3, the placeHolder gets 1 part and the scrollPane gets 2 parts. The GridLayout is kinda doing what I need, but I'm looking for a solution with MigLayout.
If you uncomment panel.add(placeHolder2, "");
and comment the line above it works.
EDIT1:
I tried using the sizegroup contraint. Now the placeHolder and the scrollPane have the same size, but I want the scrollPane take twice as much space. (Additionally in my programm I dont have a placeholder like this, but rather there are some labels, checkboxes and textfields. So sizegroup probably is not what I need except there are more ways to use it)
I found the solution here:
MigLayout confused by JTable objects contained in JScrollBar objects
and here:
How to set JScrollPane to show only a sepecific amount of rows
table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(null);
or
table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(table.getPreferredSize());
I don't know what's the difference between this code snippets, but they both do what I need.