border-layout

I am trying to add components to SOUTH of a BorderLayout I need it to look like this example. ------------------------------------ | | | | | | | | | | | | |_TxtField|Button_____________Label| So I need a JTextField and a JButton aligned to the left, and a label aligned to the right. How can I accomplish this? Here is my code below, I have tried to do this using nested panels: import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; public class BlackjackGUI{ private JFrame frame; private JPanel panel, panelLeft, panelBottomLeft,

I want to have a JFrame, where on the left and the right there is a border that has the color black and a width of withfOfJFrame/10. Now, my try at it looks like this: JFrame f = new JFrame(); f.setSize(800, 600); f.setLayout(new BorderLayout()); JPanel leftBorder = new JPanel(); JPanel rightBorder = new JPanel(); leftBorder.setBackground(Color.black); rightBorder.setBackground(Color.black); leftBorder.setSize(f.getWidth()/10, f.getHeight()); rightBorder.setSize(f.getWidth()/10, f.getHeight()); JPanel center = new JPanel(); center.setBackground(Color.red); f.add(leftBorder, BorderLayout.WEST);

How to add a JButton into the center of a JFrame with BorderLayout() ? I tried using BorderLayout.CENTER , but instead of the center of the screen, it gave the top-center of the screen. Or do I have to use another layout manager? Andrew Thompson Put a JPanel in the CENTER and set the layout to GridBagLayout or BoxLayout as seen in this answer to Set component at center of the page . The GridBagLayout is used to center a label containing the yellow/red gradient image seen in the Nested Layout Example . It may take some time to learn, but SpringLayout is worth looking into. It will let you

Below is an example of adding two panels to a frame. Only one panel (the 2nd, red panel) appears. Why does the first panel disappear? import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder; public class DisappearingPanelInFrame { DisappearingPanelInFrame() { JFrame f = new JFrame(this.getClass().getSimpleName()); f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE); f.add(new ColoredPanel(Color.GREEN)); f.add(new ColoredPanel(Color.RED)); f.pack(); f.setVisible(true); } public static void main(String[] args) { Runnable r = new Runnable() { @Override public void run() {