How do I put a scrollPane on a BoxLayout?

Question

I would like to have my JFrame that has a BoxLayout be able to have a scroll pane so I could just keep adding in Groups like if it was a receipt or invoice printer. Is there a way to add a ScrollPane?

Question: How to add a ScrollPane to the JFrame?

Code, originally seen here:

import java.awt.EventQueue;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.Box;
import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.GroupLayout;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextField;

/** @see https://mcmap.net/q/76036/-swing-grouplayout-resizing-and-limiting-component-sizes */
public class GroupPanel extends JPanel {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private JLabel label1     = new JLabel("Primary:");
    private JTextField field1 = new JTextField(16);
    private JLabel label2     = new JLabel("Secondary:");
    private JTextField field2 = new JTextField(16);
    private JLabel label3     = new JLabel("Tertiary:");
    private JTextField field3 = new JTextField(16);
    JScrollPane sp = new JScrollPane();

    public GroupPanel(int n) {
        this.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Panel " + n));
        GroupLayout l = new GroupLayout(this);          
        this.setLayout(l);
        l.setAutoCreateGaps(true);
        l.setAutoCreateContainerGaps(true);
        l.setHorizontalGroup(l.createSequentialGroup()
            .addGroup(l.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING)
                .addComponent(label1)
                .addComponent(label2)
                .addComponent(label3))
            .addGroup(l.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
                .addComponent(field1)
                .addComponent(field2)
                .addComponent(field3))
        );

        l.setVerticalGroup(l.createSequentialGroup()
            .addGroup(l.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                .addComponent(label1)
                .addComponent(field1))
            .addGroup(l.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                .addComponent(label2)
                .addComponent(field2))
            .addGroup(l.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                .addComponent(label3)
                .addComponent(field3))
        );

        sp.setToolTipText("test");
        sp.add(this);
    }

    private static void display() {
        JFrame f = new JFrame("GroupPanel");
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.getContentPane().setLayout(new BoxLayout(f.getContentPane(), BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
        f.getContentPane().add(new GroupPanel(1));
        f.getContentPane().add(new GroupPanel(2));
        f.getContentPane().add(new GroupPanel(3));
        f.getContentPane().add(new GroupPanel(4));
        f.getContentPane().add(Box.createVerticalGlue());
        f.pack();
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                display();
            }
        });
    }
}

Ubangishari

Answer 1

Simply enclose all the components into JPanel first and then add it into JScrollPane and finally add JScrollPane into JFrames content pane.

Sample code:

JPanel panel = new JPanel();
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(panel);

panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
panel.add(new GroupPanel(1));
panel.add(new GroupPanel(2));
panel.add(new GroupPanel(3));
panel.add(new GroupPanel(4));
panel.add(Box.createVerticalGlue());

f.getContentPane().add(scrollPane);

screenshot;

Hannah

+1 for a useful example of refactoring the original. – Chrisom

That is fine but what about auto scroll when tab key is pressed to move to another component – Kissner