Intermediate Java
Week 2 Review Questions
- 1. What are layout managers and what do they do?
- Layout managers determine how the items that you put on a GUI are laid out on the GUI - where they are, and how large they are, and what sort of spacing is used between items.
- 2. True or False: In Swing, virtually all components are capable of holding other components
- True
- 3. True or False: Different layout managers have the same policies for arranging components?
- False
- 4. Briefly describe the differences between BorderLayout, FlowLayout and BoxLayout.
- Border: arranges items in the border areas of the "page", assuming 5 possible areas - North ( top of page ) , South ( bottom of page) East ( left of page ) West ( right of page) and Center ( in the area between the north and south of page, if these exist, and in between the east and west of page, if these exist.)
- Flow: arranges items from left to right until the "row" on the page is full, and them moves to the next row. Fills the GUI in the direction we read a book .
- Box: Box layout lays items out along either the x-axis or the y-axis ( as you specify) and sizes them exactly according to your specs. It also allows you to create specifically-sized spaces between items.
- 5. Which layout manager deals with five regions: east, west, north, south, and center?
- BORDER
- 6. Which layout manager keeps components stacked, even if there is room to put them side by side?
- BOX
- 7. What does pack() method do?
- It seems to be involved in attaching things to a frame
- 8. What is the default layout manager for a frame?
- Border
- 9. What is the default layout manager for a panel?
- Flow
