Is there a “Group Box” equivalent in Java Swing?

Question

Trying to build a GUI application in Java/Swing. I\'m mainly used to \"painting\" GUIs on the Windows side with tools like VB (or to be more precise, Gupta SQLWindows... wonder

Answer 1

A Group box is just a set of 'logically grouped widgets'. This in the swing world is a JPanel.

Add your widgets to a JPanel.

Set its border type to 'Titled Border' and give the title, same as the name of the VB6 'frame'.

Voila. You have your group box.