/*
		Name:		Chris Johnson
					johnson@dcs.gla.ac.uk
		
		Last modified:	26/10/98
		
		Description:		provides some "convenience" methods by packaging away
					multiple calls to add, position and size the components
					of a GridBagLayout.
					From G.W. Rouse's An Introduction to Data Structures and
					Algorithms with Java, Prentice Hall, Hemel Hemstead, 1998.
					pp 65-78.

*/
package uk.ac.gla.dcs.johnson;
import java.awt.*;

public class NewGridBagLayout extends GridBagLayout
{
	
	private GridBagConstraints constraints;
	
	public NewGridBagLayout()
	{
			super();
			constraints = new GridBagConstraints();
	}
	
	public void setRareConstraints(int anchor, int fill, Insets insets, int ipadx,
							 int ipady, double weightx, double weighty)
	{
		constraints.anchor = anchor;
		constraints.fill = fill;
		constraints.insets = insets;
		constraints.ipadx = ipadx;
		constraints.ipady = ipady;
		constraints.weightx= weightx;
		constraints.weighty = weighty;
		
	}
	
	public void setPositionSizeAdd(Component control, Container parent,
								int gridx, int gridy,
								int gridwidth, int gridheight)
// without this method the programmer would have to issue six calls rather than one
// to set all of the constraints and add the component
	{
		
		constraints.gridx = gridx;
		constraints.gridy = gridy;
		constraints.gridwidth = gridwidth;
		constraints.gridheight = gridheight;
		setConstraints(control, constraints);
		parent.add(control);
	}
					
	
}