java GridBagLayout anchor

Question

Learing GridBagLayout, The issue here is, the name label and combox don\'t show up on the top of the panel, but I have set its anchor to NORTH. Why ?

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Answer 1

You have to change

gridBagConstraints.weighty = 0.0;

to

gridBagConstraints.weighty = 1.0;

otherwise the area reserved for the component is slimmed to the size of the component, and it doesn't matter in which direction you "anchor" the component.

The result after changing the weighty is the following: