JTextField Size Changing When I Change The Font

Question

When I Change The Font Of My JTextField The Actual JTextField Resizes, Any Help?

I am working on a calculator and obviously based on how bad the code is you can tell the I am a noob

Any Help Would Be Appreciated

CODE:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.ComponentOrientation;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.Font;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
javax.swing.JTextField;



  public class Ken {

static JTextField text = new JTextField("0",37);



public static void frame(){
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("MyCalc");
    frame.setSize(460, 600);
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.setVisible(true);
    frame.setResizable(false);
    FlowLayout fl = new FlowLayout(0, 30, 20);
    setLayout(fl);

    frame.getContentPane().setLayout(fl);
    Container con = frame.getContentPane();
    con.setBackground(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
    Font f = new Font("MS UI Gothic", Font.BOLD, 40);
    Font f2 = new Font("Engravers MT", Font.PLAIN, 40);
    int bHeight = 80;
    int bWidth = 70;
    text.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    text.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
    text.setFont(f2);


    frame.add(text, BorderLayout.NORTH);

    JButton oneButton = new JButton("1");
    oneButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    oneButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    oneButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    oneButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(oneButton);

    JButton twoButton = new JButton("2");
    twoButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    twoButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    twoButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    twoButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(twoButton);

    JButton threeButton = new JButton("3");
    threeButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    threeButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    threeButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    threeButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(threeButton);

    JButton plusButton = new JButton("+");
    plusButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    plusButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    plusButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    plusButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(plusButton);

    JButton fourButton = new JButton("4");
    fourButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    fourButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    fourButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    fourButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(fourButton);

    JButton fiveButton = new JButton("5");
    fiveButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    fiveButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    fiveButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    fiveButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(fiveButton);

    JButton sixButton = new JButton("6");
    sixButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    sixButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    sixButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    sixButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(sixButton);

    JButton minusButton = new JButton("-");
    minusButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    minusButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    minusButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    minusButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(minusButton);

    JButton sevenButton = new JButton("7");
    sevenButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    sevenButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    sevenButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    sevenButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(sevenButton);

    JButton eightButton = new JButton("8");
    eightButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    eightButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    eightButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    eightButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(eightButton);

    JButton nineButton = new JButton("9");
    nineButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight,bWidth));
    nineButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    nineButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    nineButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(nineButton);

    JButton timesButton = new JButton("*");
    timesButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    timesButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    timesButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    timesButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(timesButton);

    JButton zeroButton = new JButton("0");
    zeroButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    zeroButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    zeroButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    zeroButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(zeroButton);

    JButton enterButton = new JButton("=");
    enterButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(190, bWidth));
    enterButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    enterButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    enterButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(enterButton);

    JButton dividButton = new JButton("/");
    dividButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(bHeight, bWidth));
    dividButton.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    dividButton.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
    dividButton.setFont(f);
    frame.add(dividButton);

    frame.setComponentOrientation(
            ComponentOrientation.LEFT_TO_RIGHT);
}



private static Dimension Dimension(int bHeight, int bWidth) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    return null;
}



private static void setLayout(FlowLayout fl) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

}



public static void main(String[] args){
    frame();
}
}

Answer 1

When I Change The Font Of My JTextField The Actual JTextField Resizes

Yes this is the desired behaviour of Swing components. They automatically resize themselves when properties are changed. This is a good thing and you should leave the default behaviour. That is, you should not be trying to manually set the size of the component by using the setPreferredSize() method.

static JTextField text = new JTextField("0",37);

The problem is that you have specified a column size that is too big. The columns size is the number of characters, not pixels. Make it something more reasonable:

static JTextField text = new JTextField("0",10);