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I want to create something like this: Main panel has its margins (x), and TextArea in the center of that panel which almost fills up the panel. At the bottom is another panel with custom size (height y), which can be toggled visible and unvisible with some shortcut. Bottom Panel has FlowLayout and few elements. The problem is I have no idea how to do this. BoxLayout has no margins. I tried with GridBagLayout but I doesn't work or I can't understand it enough :( I tried also with setting JTextArea margins textMain.setMargin(new Insets(insetTop, insetLeft, insetBottom, insetRight)); but when

I'd like to add a subplot to an existing plot in R. The subplot (inset) should have a different background color. I tried the following: #install.packages("TeachingDemos", dependencies=T) library(package="TeachingDemos") d0 <- data.frame(x = rnorm(150, sd=5), y = rnorm(150, sd=5)) d0_inset <- data.frame(x = rnorm(1500, sd=5), y = rnorm(1500, sd=5)) plot(d0) subplot( fun = plot( d0_inset , col = 2 , pch = '.' , mgp = c(1,0.4,0) , ann = F , cex.axis=0.5 ) , x = grconvertX(c(0.75,1), from='npc') , y = grconvertY(c(0,0.25), from='npc') , type = 'fig' , pars = list( mar = c(1.5,1.5,0,0) + 0.1 , bg

I am very much impressed by the "inset" like effect in many latest websites. Some examples are and The line in the center. Nowadays, many websites use these kinds of lines/effects. I tried to achieve the same with borders but the color combination is not working me and it is not proper. Do other websites use images for these ? is it easy to this ? Any example css ? Example sites: http://woothemes.com , http://net.tutsplus.com/ , http://www.w3schools.com (in the header) and in wordpress admin page sidebar Don't know if this will help, but using 1 px borders that are slightly lighter and darker

I'd like to have an inset within a plot that makes up 25% of the width and height of the plotting area (area where the graphs are). I tried: # datasets d0 <- data.frame(x = rnorm(150, sd=5), y = rnorm(150, sd=5)) d0_inset <- data.frame(x = rnorm(1500, sd=5), y = rnorm(1500, sd=5)) # ranges xlim <- range(d0$x) ylim <- range(d0$y) # plot plot(d0) # add inset par(fig = c(.75, 1, .75, 1), mar=c(0,0,0,0), new=TRUE) plot(d0_inset, col=2) # inset bottomright This puts the inset to absolute topright and also uses 25% of the device-width. How can I change it to the coordinates and width of the area

I know that when you use par( fig=c( ... ), new=T ) , you can create inset graphs. However, I was wondering if it is possible to use ggplot2 library to create 'inset' graphs. UPDATE 1: I tried using the par() with ggplot2, but it does not work. UPDATE 2: I found a working solution at ggplot2 GoogleGroups using grid::viewport() . Richie Cotton Section 8.4 of the book explains how to do this. The trick is to use the grid package's viewport s. #Any old plot a_plot <- ggplot(cars, aes(speed, dist)) + geom_line() #A viewport taking up a fraction of the plot area vp <- viewport(width = 0.4, height =