Name: jl125535 Date: 03/29/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
I read an article a while back that Apple's UI research folks
determined that it was more preferable to the user to position a dialog
using the "golden mean" relative to its parent rather than to actually
center it relative to the parent. After implementing this in several
places in my apps, I must say, it's subtle but it does seem nicer.
This is a totally picky point, but it would be really nice if Swing
supported "golden centering" rather than regular centering for things
like JOptionPane.showXxx ....

JUSTIFICATION :
Described above, but mainly just a more visually appealing layout.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Described above
ACTUAL -
Currently centering is truly centered relative to the parent component.

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any of the JOptionPane.showXxx methods demonstrate the current behavior
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CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
public static void centerWindowRelativeTo(Window _window, Dimension
_parentSize) {
    Dimension size = _window.getSize();
    int x = (_parentSize.width - size.width) / 2;
    int y = (_parentSize.height - size.height) / 2;
    y /= ((1.0 + Math.sqrt(5)) / 2.0);
    _window.setLocation(x, y);
}
(Incident Review ID: 230653)
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