JLabel text disappears in JPanel after resizing

Question

I have two visualization tools. One of them extends JTextArea, and the other inherits JPanel. I add them to another JPanel with a GridBagLayout.

When resizing JTextArea, I see at least some text. In the case of JPanel, I have two labels, and if the JPanel is small, they completely disappear.

Is it possible to resize JLabel instead of fading?

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Thank you for your responses!

Using BoxLayout for JPanel and defining minimum, preferred, and maximum sizes helped solve my problem.

Answer 1

Have you tried using the setMinimumSize(Dimension) frame?

 frame.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(100, 100)); 

A look at the documentation tells me that the behavior you see is platform dependent, so if you have multiple platforms, it might be a good idea to check the code that you have on each of them; which ones work and which don't.

The following code example works for me as desired in Windows Vista:

 import javax.swing.JFrame; import java.awt.Dimension; public class Ex extends JFrame { public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame frame = new JFrame("YOU CAN'T SHRINK ME COMPLETELY!"); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.setSize(400, 400); frame.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(100, 100)); frame.setVisible(true); } } 

Answer 2

check panel layout manager.