<Swing Dev> SpringLayout equivalent behavior

[Alexander Scherbatiy]

On 4/24/2015 11:40 AM, Tadeus Prastowo wrote:
> Hi Alex!
>
> Thank you for the pointer. I have filed the problem there. But sadly, the reporting system is proprietary now that I cannot see my open issue as commonly the case when participating in a free software development like, for example, Ubuntu launchpad.
     It has been registered as JDK-8078594 SpringLayout equivalent behavior
         https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8078594

    Thanks,
    Alexandr.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Eus
>
> 24.04.2015, 15:16, "Alexander Scherbatiy" <alexandr.scherbatiy at oracle.com>:
>>    You can create an issue on it: http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alexandr.
>>
>> On 4/24/2015 11:04 AM, Tadeus Prastowo wrote:
>>>   Hi!
>>>
>>>   Could someone give me a pointer to where I should ask/file the following Swing layout problem, please?
>>>
>>>   20.04.2015, 18:55, "Tadeus Prastowo" <tadeus.prastowo at yandex.com>:
>>>>   Hi!
>>>>
>>>>   It is shown on https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/spring.html#alternatives that
>>>>
>>>>   layout.putConstraint(
>>>>      SpringLayout.WEST, label,
>>>>      5,
>>>>      SpringLayout.WEST, contentPane);
>>>>
>>>>   is equivalent to
>>>>
>>>>   SpringLayout.Constraints  contentPaneCons = layout.getConstraints(contentPane);
>>>>   contentPaneCons.setX(
>>>>      Spring.sum(
>>>>        Spring.constant(5),
>>>>        contentPaneCons.getConstraint(SpringLayout.WEST)
>>>>   ));
>>>>
>>>>   IMO, setting the X of a container from within the container will have no effect because the one who will set the container's X will be the layout manager of its parent container. Therefore, I think the correct one is:
>>>>
>>>>   SpringLayout.Constraints  labelCons = layout.getConstraints(label);
>>>>   labelCons.setX(
>>>>      Spring.sum(
>>>>        Spring.constant(5),
>>>>        labelCons.getConstraint(SpringLayout.WEST)
>>>>   ));
>>>>
>>>>   What do you guys think?
>>>>
>>>>   Thank you.
>>>>
>>>>   --
>>>>   Best regards,
>>>>   Eus