Positioning a Frame

The JFrame class itself has only a few methods for changing how frames look. Of course, through the magic of inheritance, most of the methods for working with the size and position of a frame come from the various superclasses of JFrame. Here are some of the most important methods:

• The setLocation and setBounds methods for setting the position of the frame

• The setIconImage method, which tells the windowing system which icon to display in the title bar, task switcher window, and so on

• The setTitle method for changing the text in the title bar

• The setResizable method, which takes a boolean to determine if a frame will be resizeable by the user