I'm putting together a quick and dirty animation using swing. I would like the window to be maximized. How can I do that?
I'm putting together a quick and dirty animation using swing. I would like the window to be maximized. How can I do that?
Provided that you are extending JFrame:
public void run() {
MyFrame myFrame = new MyFrame();
myFrame.setVisible(true);
myFrame.setExtendedState(myFrame.getExtendedState() | JFrame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
}
Something like this.setExtendedState(this.getExtendedState() | this.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Test extends JFrame
{
public Test()
{
GraphicsEnvironment env =
GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
this.setMaximizedBounds(env.getMaximumWindowBounds());
this.setExtendedState(this.getExtendedState() | this.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
Test t = new Test();
t.setVisible(true);
}
}
If you're using a JFrame, try this
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
//...
frame.setExtendedState(JFrame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
The way to set JFrame to full-screen, is to set MAXIMIZED_BOTH option which stands for MAXIMIZED_VERT | MAXIMIZED_HORIZ, which respectively set the frame to maximize vertically and horizontally
package Example;
import java.awt.GraphicsConfiguration;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JButton;
public class JFrameExample
{
static JFrame frame;
static GraphicsConfiguration gc;
public static void main(String[] args)
{
frame = new JFrame(gc);
frame.setTitle("Full Screen Example");
frame.setExtendedState(MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
JButton button = new JButton("exit");
b.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0){
JFrameExample.frame.dispose();
System.exit(0);
}});
frame.add(button);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
I've tried the solutions in this thread and the ones here, but simply calling setExtendedState(getExtendedState()|Frame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH); right after calling setVisible(true); apparently does not work for my environment (Windows 10, JDK 1.8, my taskbar is on the right side of my screen). Doing it this way still leaves a tiny space on the left, right and bottom .
What did work for me however, is calling setExtendedState(... when the window is activated, like so:
public class SomeFrame extends JFrame {
public SomeFrame() {
// ...
setVisible(true);
setResizable(true);
// if you are calling setSize() for fallback size, do that here
addWindowListener (
new WindowAdapter() {
private boolean shown = false;
@Override
public void windowActivated(WindowEvent we) {
if(shown) return;
shown = true;
setExtendedState(getExtendedState()|JFrame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
}
}
);
}
}
@kgiannakakis answer is fully correct, but if someone stuck into this problem and uses Java 6 on Linux (by example, Mint 19 Cinnamon), MAXIMIZED_BOTH state is sometimes not applied.
You could try to call pack() method after setting this state.
Code example:
public MainFrame() {
setContentPane(contentPanel); //some JPanel is here
setPreferredSize(new Dimension(1200, 800));
setMinimumSize(new Dimension(1200, 800));
setSize(new Dimension(1200, 800));
setExtendedState(JFrame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
pack();
}
This is not necessary if you are using Java 7+ or Java 6 on Windows.