Placing a JLabel at a specific x,y coordinate on a JPanel

Question

I\'m trying to place a series of JLabels at specific X and Y coordinates on a JPanel (and set its height and width, too). No matter what I do, each label winds up immediatel

Answer 1

You have to set your container's Layout to null:

myPanel.setLayout(null);

However is a good advise also to take a look at the Matisse Layout Manager, I guess it is called GroupLayout now. The main problem with absolute positioning is what happens when the window changes its size.