Really really easy Swing help [resolved]

[filburt1]

I'm learning Swing at my mentorship and am used to VB's way of doing GUI stuff, so naturally Swing is hell to me. How can I center a JFrame in the screen, like VB's vbCenterScreen StartupPosition property? I have the VB code but I have no idea how to do it in Java:

Me.Move Screen.Width \ 2 - Me.Width \ 2, Screen.Height \ 2 - Me.Height \ 2

[Dillinger4]

I have that code somwhere in one of my programs. Ill have to look for it. Hold on.

[Dillinger4]

Ok sorry i had to look through some old projects.
This Visual Basic code is equivlent to the Java code
down below.

Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.Top = (Screen.Height - Me.Height) / 2
Me.Left = (Screen.Width - Me.Width) / 2
End Sub


// center on display

Dimension display = getToolkit().getScreenSize();
Dimension bounds = this.getSize();

// i used this because my class extended Frame

int x = (display.width - bounds.width) / 2;
int y = (display.height - bounds.height) / 2;

if (x < 0) x = 10; // I forgot why i had these two
if (y < 0) y = 15; // statements, but give them a try.

this.setLocation(x,y);

[filburt1]

Cool, it works.

[Dillinger4]

the setLocaiton() method is defined in the javax.swing JComponent class along with getLocation(); They are inherited naturally from the java.awt.Component class.

[Dillinger4]

[filburt1]

*stares blankly* Oh, yeah, I know. Yeah. Right. *continues blank stare*