December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
20h 27m
English
Although it is not a recommended technique, because many IDE tools use absolute positioning, this will be covered first. Absolute positioning is a means of specifying the exact size and location of every GUI component by pixels. You do this when you tell Java not to do anything about the sizing or positioning of components. You take on that responsibility completely.
You need to do two things to use absolute positioning. First, remove any LayoutManager implementation object from the GUI by setting its object reference to null. Second, define the position, width, and height in pixels of every component in the GUI (except for a MenuBar, which has a predefined location ...
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