layout-manager

Could somebody tell me which java layout I need to use to achieve the layout below: I am currently playing out with the FlowLayout however I can’t get the entry fields to line up beside the output window: Apologies if this is a simple question this is my first time using java. Here is my frame code: private void makeFrame() { setLayout(new FlowLayout(0)); JPanel panel1 = new JPanel(); JPanel panel2 = new JPanel(); JPanel panel3 = new JPanel(); JPanel panel4 = new JPanel(); JPanel panel5 = new JPanel(); JPanel panel6 = new JPanel(); JPanel panel7 = new JPanel(); panel1.setLayout(new FlowLayout

So I have 6 panels, all of them used a grid layout. And I put them together using gridbaglayout, here is the design I wanted Turn out it became a total mess The "second" panel became much further away to the right The third panel is squeezed a lot to the left and it was a disaster. Here is my code for the gridbag layout c.gridx = 0; c.gridy = 0; add (first,c); c.gridx = 2; //so that the second panel starts from the center and is divided evenly with the first panel add(second,c); c.gridx = 0; c.gridy = 1; add(third,c); c.gridx = 1; add(fourth,c); c.gridx = 2; add(fifth,c); c.gridx = 3; add

I'm looking for a LayoutManager that will allow me to show a set of components in a container (e.g. a JPanel), in columns, roughly as follows. The container's width is an input constraint. The container's preferred height is a function of the width, and is either: the minimum height needed to get the components to fit within the width, when laid out in more than one column. the minimum height needed to get the components to fit in a single column. The components will be placed in a newspaper-column order, from top to bottom and then from left to right. Here's an example (low-tech text display)

I've spent a while reading and experimenting here, and come up with a few approaches, but not got any of them to work completely yet, so I would like to know what more experienced Swing programmers would do. The main window of my application contains a custom subtype of JPanel, which is used to display an image calculated from a mathematical function. This can take some time to calculate, so while this happens I display a text message and a progress bar superimposed on the middle of the panel. I would like both the text and the progress bar to resize appropriately when the panel is resized,

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 ? import java.awt.GridBagConstraints; import java.awt.GridBagLayout; import java.awt.GridLayout; import javax.swing.JComboBox; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.WindowConstants; public class Test2 { public Test2() { JFrame frame = new JFrame(); frame.setTitle("test"); frame.getContentPane().setLayout(new GridLayout(1,2)); frame.setSize(800, 600); JPanel panel1 = new JPanel(); panel1

I am trying to have several JTextFields on a single row, but I don't want them to have the same width. How can I control the width and make some of them wider than others? I want that they together take up 100% of the total width, so it would be good if I could use some kind of weigthing. I have tried with .setColumns() but it doesn't make sense. Here is an example, where I am using three rows with three strings that should appear as in columns: import java.awt.GridLayout; import javax.swing.BoxLayout; import javax.swing.JComponent; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JPanel; import