Get location of a swing component

Question

I have put some JPanels into another JPanel which its\' layout is Box Layout and Y-Axis. After I have put all the panels I need to get the Y position of each added JPanel in

Answer 1

Coordinates are relative to their parent. In your exemple, all the child components are being added along the top of the parent container, making there y position 0 (relative to their parent).

Try adding an empty border to the parent container, you should see the y position change.

You can use the SwingUtilities.convertPoint to convert between coordinate systems