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Interface ScalingLayoutManager

All Superinterfaces:

java.awt.LayoutManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

FitAllLayout, FitLayout, MatrixLayout, ZoomLayout

public interface ScalingLayoutManager

extends java.awt.LayoutManager

A layout manager that scales a container's components equally.

Since:

1.0

Method Summary

double	preferredScale(java.awt.Container container) Returns the scale of the specified container's components if the container were to get its preferred size.
double	scaleComponents(java.awt.Container container) Lays out the container's components and returns the scale factor.

Methods inherited from interface java.awt.LayoutManager

addLayoutComponent, layoutContainer, minimumLayoutSize, preferredLayoutSize, removeLayoutComponent

Method Detail

preferredScale

public double preferredScale(java.awt.Container container)

Returns the scale of the specified container's components if the container were to get its preferred size.

Parameters:

container - container for which to calculate the scale

Returns:

the amount this layout manager would scale the specified container's components to achieve the preferred size

scaleComponents

public double scaleComponents(java.awt.Container container)

Lays out the container's components and returns the scale factor.

Parameters:

container - container for which to lay out its children

Returns:

the amount the specified container's children were scaled