GUI flexibility

Jul 09, 2009 01:05:36

Hello all,

Is it possible to make GUI control like Button as a container?

For example can I make four regions say left top,right top,left bottom,right bottom on a button, so if I click on left region area some action is fired
and different action is fired on different regions.

Can we make all controls to be displayed in all 360 degree direction? I mean can we rotate it?

Thanks,
Nikesh

Jul 09, 2009 01:14:58

Tell us what is the requirement. So we can think of different solution

Jul 09, 2009 01:24:59

Since JButton subclasses Container, the answer is yes, but it is going to confuse your users heavily. Why would you want to do it, when you got JPanel's?

Figuring out the click regions won't be that easy, effectively you will be clicking the same button every time. You will need to define the bounds for the top/left/bottom/right regions. Then you will need to trap the mouse clicks. Then you will need to get the co-ordinates for the click. Then you will need to figure out which region was clicked and process accordingly. Not worth the effort in my opinion.
Easier would be a JPanel with different buttons (or some suitable component) added using say BorderLayout (or any other suitable layout)

Graphics2D has a rotate method which you can use. Of course this would involve tweaking the paintComponent method.

Jul 09, 2009 02:48:48

Try this: https://swinghelper.dev.java.net/bin/transformer/TransformerDemo.jnlp
at https://swinghelper.dev.java.net/

Jul 09, 2009 03:36:13

The transformer demo is fun.

Thanks for sharing.

Jul 09, 2009 03:41:31

Ya Great

Jul 10, 2009 02:54:15

Thanks for sharing this demo. It's cool.