Is there a “Group Box” equivalent in Java Swing?

Question

Trying to build a GUI application in Java/Swing. I\'m mainly used to \"painting\" GUIs on the Windows side with tools like VB (or to be more precise, Gupta SQLWindows... wonder

Answer 1

Not AFAIK, at least not with standard swing widgets.

In VB you have a group widget, which is essentially a panel + border.

In Swing you have a JPanel which is the container widget, and you create and set a border object on it only if you need one. One can argue that in a way that is more elegant since you don't pay for something you don't use (e.g., border)