I'd like to create in Java Swing a file manager-alike interface, with icons spanning horizontally unless no more horizontal space is possible to allocate, and then going to a new line.
This is my current code:
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane();
scrollPane.setBounds(156, 36, 1098, 634);
scrollPane.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
getContentPane().add(scrollPane);
DesktopPanel = new JPanel();
scrollPane.setViewportView(DesktopPanel);
DesktopPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT, 5, 5));
So I perform some DesktopPanel.add(component); but the components span always horizontally even when there's no more space, so I see the components to go off the screen. I suspect that's because the FlowLayout "thinks" there's more space because it's contained in a JScrollPane which can have infinite horizontal space, but I do not know how I can confine that space to the visible space only.
Thank you in advance.