squeeze JPanel horizontally to fit JScrollPane

[Albeeezz]

Hello, I am a beginner using Java and I have some questions in regard to JScrollPane.


I have a JPanel which contains many JTextField's in a single row.

I have placed the JPanel inside a JScrollPane.

I have disabled horizontal scrolling and set vertical scrolling "as needed."

How can I force the JPanel to resize its width to never exceed the width of the JScrollpane to eliminate the need for horizontal scrolling ?

I only want it to exceed vertically if needed so the user may scroll down.

I have tried the JPanel.setSize(); method but it has no effect.


Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you

[Albeeezz]

For example,

when you add a JPanel with plenty of JLabel's and JTextField's in a single row to a JFrame, the JPanel will automatically resize its width to fit in the JFrame and make the JLabels and JTextField's shorter.

When you add a JPanel like this to a JScrollPane, it does not resize itself at all and requires you to scroll horizontally.

I have tried the JPanel.setSize() method to manually set the width but to no effect.

I have tried the JScrollPane.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(); method
and set it to:
ScrollPaneConstants.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER,

thinking that the JPanel will automatically resize its width but also to no effect.

I would only like the JPanel to exceed the JScrollPane vertically and sqeeze its width to fit horizontally so i dont need a horizontal scrollbar, only a vertical.

Is there anyone here that can please help me?

[Belisarius]

I don't do much work with GUI's, so I'm not really familiar with Swing, but see if this helps you out at all.

[Albeeezz]

Thanks Belisarius, that link really helped alot.
I've now got it working with the

JPanel.setPreferredSize() and the JPanel.setMaximumSize() method

much thanks!