JTextField suddenly too small

Question

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The textfield always worked fine, but suddenly was too small. You can still enter text, and when clicking the Print textJOptionPane.

I also tried both

JTextField tfld = new JTextField(10);

and

JTextField tfld = new JTextField("test adlfjsdlfjasdf");

but neither one helped.

Answer 1

Sounds like you are using a GridBagLayout. This happens on components that don't have a reasonable minimum size.

Answer 2

try you use

         txtfield.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(int,int));

it will take parameters for Dimension you can read this for further assistance

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/JComponent.html#setPreferredSize%28java.awt.Dimension%29