Hello.

I'm fairly new to Java and this is my first post.  In the following app, I
display some buttons inside a JPanel inside a JFrame.  The last command in
the constructor is a call to setBounds(), with which I try to position the
JFrame more toward the center of the screen, and size the JFrame at 100w x
400h pixels.  I've also tried moving the setBounds() call to the bottom of
main().  In either case, the JFrame is positioned correctly (at 0,0 when
setBounds()  gone; at 100,250 when setBounds() used) , but the width/height
numbers are ignored, resulting in a JFrame maybe 500w x 50h--emphatically
not 100w x 400h.

Code:

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class Rebate extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
JButton create, update, delete, exit;

public Rebate() {
 super ("Process Rebates");
 setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
 create = new JButton("Add New Rebate");
 update = new JButton("Update Existing Rebate");
 delete = new JButton("Delete a Completed Rebate");
 exit = new JButton("Quit");
 create.addActionListener(this);
 update.addActionListener(this);
 delete.addActionListener(this);
 exit.addActionListener(this);
 JPanel pane = new JPanel();
 pane.setLayout( new GridLayout() );
 pane.add(create);
 pane.add(update);
 pane.add(delete);
 pane.add(exit);
 setContentPane(pane);
 setBounds(100,250,100,400);
}

public static void main (String[] args) {
 Rebate r = new Rebate();
 r.pack();
 r.show();
}

public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent e) {
 Object o = e.getSource();
 *
 * bunch of code which displays JOptionPane dialog boxes showing
 * what button was clicked
 *
 System.exit(0);
}

}

Thanks.

Peter

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