Question for Java: What is the line of code for a method getSpace which returns attribute "space"?

Question

Java coding using java.swing

Answer 1

There is no "getSpace()" method anywhere in Swing. Did you perhaps mean "getSize()"?

Inherited (and perhaps overwritten) by all Swing components:
java.awt.Component class -> Dimension getSize()
java.awt.Component class -> Rectangle getBounds()
java.awt.Component class -> Dimension getPreferredSize()

Some layout managers (such as FlowLayout) use the getPreferredSize() method to determine how much "real estate" to give the component when doing the layout.

Also, these methods are overloaded, with versions that take a parameter into which the values are set and the parameter instance is returned.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

There's also a way to get the "gap" distance in some Layout Managers. But that would be an odd way to ask about that.