<Swing Dev> SpringLayout equivalent behavior

[Tadeus Prastowo]

24.04.2015, 15:48, "Alexander Scherbatiy" <alexandr.scherbatiy at oracle.com>:
> 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

Wow, that's cool! Thank you very much for letting me know, Alex! :)

--
Best regards,
Eus

>     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