I am trying to make a menu screen for a game. I've added two buttons, play and exit, and am currently trying to figure out how to resize them. When I run my code the buttons are almost the exact same size (different I imagine because of the text). I'm using BoxLayout for my buttons, and I just read here Why will BoxLayout not allow me to change the width of a JButton but let me change the height? why it would only resize the width or height, but it's not resizing either right now. In my code I use BoxLayout.PAGE_AXIS, I don't know if that makes a difference, but it didn't resize vertically either with BoxLayout.Y_AXIS.
Here's my code:
public class Stage extends JFrame {
/* PRIVATE */
private JButton play, exit;
// Setup the Menu screen.
private void createMenuScreen() {
Container window = getContentPane();
// window.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
JPanel menuScreen = new JPanel();
menuScreen.setLayout(new BoxLayout(menuScreen, BoxLayout.PAGE_AXIS));
window.add(menuScreen, "Center");
play = new JButton("Play");
play.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(20, 20));
play.setAlignmentX(Component.CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
exit = new JButton("Exit");
exit.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 100));
exit.setAlignmentX(Component.CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
menuScreen.add(play);
menuScreen.add(exit);
}
/* PUBLIC */
public Stage() {
// Setup the frame.
setSize(224, 288);
setLocationRelativeTo(null); // Centers the window.
setUndecorated(true); // Removes the Windows border.
setVisible(true);
createMenuScreen();
}
}
