com.jgoodies.forms.layout

Interface Size

public interface Size

An interface that describes sizes as used by the {@link FormLayout}: component measuring sizes, constant sizes with value and unit, and bounded sizes that provide lower and upper bounds for a size.

You can find a motivation for the different Size types in the Forms whitepaper that is part of the product documentation and that is available online too, see http://www.jgoodies.com/articles/forms.pdf.

Version: $Revision: 1.4 $

Author: Karsten Lentzsch

See Also: Sizes ConstantSize

Method Summary
booleancompressible()
Describes if this Size can be compressed, if container space gets scarce.
intmaximumSize(Container container, List components, FormLayout.Measure minMeasure, FormLayout.Measure prefMeasure, FormLayout.Measure defaultMeasure)
Computes and returns this Size's maximum pixel size applied to the given list of components using the specified measures.

Invoked by {@link com.jgoodies.forms.layout.FormSpec} to determine the size of a column or row.

Method Detail

compressible

public boolean compressible()
Describes if this Size can be compressed, if container space gets scarce. Used by the FormLayout size computations in #compressedSizes to check whether a column or row can be compressed or not.

The ComponentSize default is compressible, as well as BoundedSizes that are based on the default size.

Returns: true for compressible Sizes

Since: 1.1

maximumSize

public int maximumSize(Container container, List components, FormLayout.Measure minMeasure, FormLayout.Measure prefMeasure, FormLayout.Measure defaultMeasure)
Computes and returns this Size's maximum pixel size applied to the given list of components using the specified measures.

Invoked by {@link com.jgoodies.forms.layout.FormSpec} to determine the size of a column or row. This method is not intended to be called by API users, and it uses API invisible parameter types.

Parameters: container the layout container components the list of components used to compute the size minMeasure the measure that determines the minimum sizes prefMeasure the measure that determines the preferred sizes defaultMeasure the measure that determines the default sizes

Returns: the maximum size in pixels for the given list of components

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