layout-manager

I wrote this code sample to illustrate a problem I'm having with my program. I expect to be able to slide the JSplitPane's slider bar to the left, beyond the edge of the buttons, compressing that JPanel, and have the FlowLayout wrap the buttons to a second row. Instead, the JSplitPane does not allow me to move the slider past the rightmost button on the screen, and if I resize the entire JFrame to force the compression, the buttons (I presume) are just running off the righthand side of the JPanel, underneath the slider bar (I guess, because I obviously cannot see them). What am I doing wrong?

Is there a layout manager that gives the same degree of control as Absolute Positioning ? But also makes auto resizing possible? Something where you could place elements using relative coordinates? Marko Topolnik GridBagLayout is the most flexible standard layout manager in Swing and it can achieve practically anything you need, although nowhere near as simply as how you imagine by just using relative coordinates (what you mean, I guess, is 0-100% relative to the frame size). You may find the official documentation for GridBagLayout here , which also has some figures and examples. You can also

Consider the following figure: I need to develop a swing GUI the looks like this. I simply named them jLabel's but there a few images and jLabels in it. The default awt background visible is a JPanel and each red background visible is a serperate JPanel. Now I need them to get stacked as shown above. I tried a number of LayoutManagers and still it doesn't work. The important point here is that the number of red colored divs are not constant. If there is only one red colored div then it must be displayed at the top, not at the center. As far as i know GridBagLayout should work, but it centers

I want to switch between JPanels by clicking buttons on the JPanels. For example: I have a JPanel sim with a JButton simknop and a JPanel help with JButton helpknop I want to switch between these 2 JPanels by clicking the buttons. When I click JButton simknop JPanel help should appear and when I click JButton help JPanel sim should appear. Below you can find the different classes: main.java public class main extends JFrame { JPanel cards; sim sim; help help; public main() { this.setSize(1024,768); //this.setLayout(new BoxLayout(this, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS)); this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame

I'm having trouble centering a JTexfield in my program.The Textfield does not appear aligned with the JButton. I've tried using the x.setHoriontalAlignment(JTextfield.CENTER); but to no avail. Any ideas? import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Dimension; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import javax.swing.BoxLayout; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JTextField; import javax.swing.JPanel; import java.awt.Container; import java.awt.GridLayout; import java.awt.GridBagLayout; public class WidgetProject implements