gridbaglayout

I have a little issue with the GridBag Layout Manager. I am trying to display 9 panels like this: To do so, I separated the Grid like this: For the panels 1 to 7 there is no problem, they show up just as I want. But the issue starts with the panels S8 and S9 . As you can see, the S8 and S9 takes up half the frame, but I can't make it display like this. The S8 ends at the start of S4 , and the S9 begins at the end of S4 , I cannot handle the half space. Only way I figured out is to put the S8 and S9 panel in another panel which takes all the frame width - but surely there must be a proper way

Hi all! I'm trying to solve an -apparently- simple problem, but I cannot fix it. I'm working on a sample application with Java/Swing libraries; I have a JFrame and a JPanel. I just want to achieve the following objectives: JPanel MUST be centered inside the JFrame. JPanel MUST have ALWAYS the size that is specified with setPreferredSize() method. It MUST NOT be resized under this size. I tried by using a GridBagLayout: it's the ONLY way I can do it. See the sample below: /* file StackSample01.java */ import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; public class StackSample01 { public static void main

I see that GridBagLayout positions it's children with center alignment within cells. How to align left or right? UPDATE Constructing code (I know I could reuse c ) // button panel JPanel button_panel = new JPanel(); button_panel.add(ok_button); button_panel.add(cancel_button); // placing controls to dialog GridBagConstraints c; GridBagLayout layout = new GridBagLayout(); setLayout(layout); c = new GridBagConstraints(); c.gridx = 0; c.gridy = 0; add(inputSource_label, c); c = new GridBagConstraints(); c.gridx = 1; c.gridy = 0; add(inputSource_combo, c); c = new GridBagConstraints(); c.gridx = 0

I was trying to achieve the end result required in Setting an arbitrary width in GridBagLayout . For easy reference, here it is: This is the current result: Button number and row is shown in the form 1,1 , followed by the number of columns (2) declared for this cell. As you can see, it starts with buttons 1,1 (3) and below it 1,2 (4) being the same width, while declaring different numbers of columns. Can anyone determine how to correct the code? The current code: import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder; public class KeyBoardLayout { private JComponent ui

I'm designing a GUI with 20 or so components: 10 labels, 4 text fields, 4 buttons, and 2 text areas. Using GridBagLayout seemed a great idea. But with all the instance variables required to do it by the book for each component (i.e., not reuse), a general method for adding components seemed a must. I really thought this could work: (Note: HORIZ is abbreviation for GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL; CENTER is abbreviation for GridBagConstraints.CENTER.) public static void addComponent(Container f, Component c, int x, int y, int w, int h, int ipadx, int ipady, float wtx, float wty, int fill, int