Time for action – using panels

Let's add a panel using our framework application.

1. In LayoutFrameworkUI class, add a getPanel method and call it from the init method to add the returned component to our main layout:

   public class LayoutFrameworkUI extends UI {
     
     protected void init(VaadinRequest request) {
   
       ...
   
       layout.addMenuOption("Panel", getPanel());
     }
   
     ...
   
     private Panel getPanel() {
       String someNumbers = "";
   
       for (int i = 0; i < 2000; i++) {
         someNumbers += " " + i;
       }
   
       Label content = new Label(someNumbers);
       Panel panel = new Panel("Panel's caption", content);
       panel.setWidth("200px");
       panel.setHeight("100px");
       panel.setScrollTop(3000); // pixels from top
   
       return panel;
     }
   
   }

2. Run it!

What just happened?

Here is a screenshot of the application showing the panel:

Let's take a closer look at how we created the panel instance. First, we created a String with a lot of numbers in it. Then, we created a new Label as usual using the numbers...