How to locate JLabels to an absolute position on Java GUI

Question

I have many JLabels (which includes ImageIcons) in a JPanel.

And this JPanel is only a panel on the GUI; there ar

Answer 1

Either

• set a custom LayoutManager (Container.setLayout) on the panel that sets the exact positions you want or
• set a null layout manager (myPanel.setLayout(null);) and set component positions externally (Component.setBounds).

Answer 2

Take a look at MigLayout, which allows you to do absolute positioning, it's not part of the JDK, but a seperate download.

It's very good as far as layout managers go and does absolute positioning, plus a whole load of other things.

Answer 3

See Doing Without a Layout Manager (Absolute Positioning) in the Java tutorials.

Creating a container without a layout manager involves the following steps.

1. Set the container's layout manager to null by calling setLayout(null).
2. Call the Component class's setbounds method for each of the container's children.
3. Call the Component class's repaint method.