awt

Center Frame on screen example

In this example we are going to see how to center a Frame on the screen. This is very important when you have many windows opened to your application and you want to manage the important ones.

In short to center a Frame on screen, you have to follow these steps:

  • Create a new Frame.
  • Create a new TextArea and a new Button.
  • Call Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize() to get the dimensions of the screen.
  • Use (dim.width-width)/2 and (dim.height-height)/2 to set up the correct coordinates.
  • Call Frame.setLocation to centralize the location to its new coordinates.

Let’s see the code:

package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.desktop;

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Button;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.TextArea;
import java.awt.Toolkit;

public class CenterFrame {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

// Create frame with specific title

Frame frame = new Frame("Example Frame");

// Create a component to add to the frame; in this case a text area with sample text

Component textArea = new TextArea("Sample text...");

// Create a component to add to the frame; in this case a button

Component button = new Button("Click Me!!");

// Add the components to the frame; by default, the frame has a border layout

frame.add(textArea, BorderLayout.NORTH);

frame.add(button, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

// Set frame size

int width = 300;

int height = 300;

frame.setSize(width, height);

// Get the size of the screen

Dimension dim = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();

// Determine the new location of the frame

int x = (dim.width-width)/2;

int y = (dim.height-height)/2;

// Move the frame

frame.setLocation(x, y);

// Show the frame

frame.setVisible(true);

  }
}

 
This was an example on how to center a frame on screen.

Byron Kiourtzoglou

Byron is a master software engineer working in the IT and Telecom domains. He is an applications developer in a wide variety of applications/services. He is currently acting as the team leader and technical architect for a proprietary service creation and integration platform for both the IT and Telecom industries in addition to a in-house big data real-time analytics solution. He is always fascinated by SOA, middleware services and mobile development. Byron is co-founder and Executive Editor at Java Code Geeks.
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