gridbaglayout

I'm trying to think of the best layout manager to achieve the picture below. I know absolute positioning is what I am used to, but I can't get the background image using this. GridBagLayout is excellent, but horrifically hard when ever I try I get a separate image for each grid. Does anyone know an easy way out of this, or easy code to achieve the following? There are a number of ways you can achieve this. The simplest might be to just use what's already available ... If you don't need the background to be scaled at run-time (ie you can get away with a non-resizable window), simply using a

I'm making a score-keeping program, but I'm running into a problem. What I've tried to do is have a JPanel at the top that contains two JPanels, which, in turn, contains two team names. I'm confused as to why the two JLabels at the top of the program aren't centered inside of the JPanels they're contained in. import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; public class ScoreFrame extends JFrame { private static final Dimension SCREEN_SIZE = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize(); private static final int WIDTH = SCREEN_SIZE.width; private static final int HEIGHT = SCREEN

I have this vexing source written to demonstrate a layout for a game screen mentioned on another question . It puts buttons (or labels, choosable at start-up) into a GridBagLayout . If you choose to not use buttons when prompted (before the GUI appears) the entire GUI is nice and compact with no gaps. But if you choose to use buttons it will (if your set up is like mine) look something like this.. Note the red horizontal lines. That is the BG color of the panel showing through. Those lines are not seen when the GUI uses labels. Stretch the GUI a bit to see that it is not even putting a red

Small error I can't manage to do. So right now my program GUI looks like this: Now there is a TextField under the 'Mark' column were the user can input their data. I also want the same for the weight section were I want to insert a TextField right under 'Weight' column. However when I try and put in a TextField, both the the Textfields turn like this when the window is small: and this when the window is enlarged: How can I make it so that there is a textfield under Mark AND Weight? Code: public class Gradeanalysis implements ActionListener { public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent e){

I want to layout my JPane like so: ------- | | | | | | ------- | | ------- This way, the top section is bigger/taller than the bottom section (the top section consists of another JPanel and uses the Graphics object to display an image, while the bottom section also consists of another JPanel but uses the Graphics object to draw some lines and text). I've heard that the best way to do this was using the GridBagLayout and GridBagConstraints. I'm trying to figure out the appropriate properties for the GridBagConstraints, and I'm having some difficulties. This is what I have so far... For the top

I want to add a vertical JSeparator between two components using a GridBagLayout. The code I have is as follows: public MainWindowBody(){ setLayout(new GridBagLayout()); JPanel leftPanel = new InformationPanel(); JPanel rightPanel = new GameSelectionPanel(); JSeparator sep = new JSeparator(JSeparator.VERTICAL); GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc.gridx = 0; gbc.gridy = 0; gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTH; add(leftPanel,gbc); gbc.gridx = 1; gbc.gridy = 0; gbc.fill = GridBagConstraints.VERTICAL; add(sep,gbc); gbc.gridx = 2; gbc.gridy = 0; gbc.fill = GridBagConstraints

Im currently wanting to construct a table type of layout for JPanels. I found out there is a TableLayout for Java but I don't how to import it. On the other hand i found out there is a GridBagLayOut which also can construct a table like layout.But it seems more complicated. Any advice. COD3BOY Here is an SSCCE of using a TableLayout, ( Introduction to TableLayout ) import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JFrame; import layout.TableLayout; public class TestTableLayout { public static void main(String args[]) { JFrame frame = new JFrame("Example of TableLayout"); frame.setSize(450, 450);

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

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