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Computer Organization. Discrete Mathematics. Ethical Hacking. Computer Graphics. Software Engineering. Web Technology. Cyber Security. C Programming. Control System. Data Mining. Data Warehouse. Do you know if I can use DesignGridLayout and set it not to not occupy the whole panel? It depends which kind of layout you need, that's why you have 8 of them: BorderLayout , simple and quite useful to design normal content frames with main content in the middle and helpers on sides.

GridLayout , useful when you have a grid of objects that should be of the same size buttons? GridBagLayout , very flexible, needs some tweaking to be fine and it is quite verbose but I raccomend it if you want to do things well. FlowLayout , useless.. CardLayout , useful for tabs or subviews that must be switched. BoxLayout , never used it too much..

Jack Jack k 27 27 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. The key to BorderLayout is the center is "greedy" by default and auto-expands widgets within to consume all available space. All other slots are non-"greedy". I've discovered "pretty decent" to be an understatement! I second this sentiment. I find GroupLayout to be extremely versatile. It produces some great layouts that scale very well. In windows where the user can just grab the corner and resize, this produces beautiful results.

I code this entirely by hand as well. You specify your layout in human-readable text, then add the components. I'll be sure to take a look! I usually use border layout with gridlayout , first i design ui on paper prototype like ; source: usernomics. Glorfindel Gah borders.

Top tip how to make your UI noisy — willcodejavaforfood. Tom Hawtin - tackline Tom Hawtin - tackline k 30 30 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I seem to be the only person in my team who understands GridBagLayout. It's still painful, though. I'm happy when I can average only 4 lines of code per component, but that's only for boring layouts. There's gotta be a better way! Hehe, mastering GridBagLayout gives you instant respect, almost everywhere.

Bombe: Back in JDK1. Kids of today! GridBagLayout may take a lot of code, but that's because it allows you so much customization that many of the other layouts don't. People say GridBagLayout is confusing, but I say that the odd sizing and positioning behaviors of all the other layouts used in nested panels is more confusing than just learning GridBagLayout.

I have written a convenient wrapper class that uses GridBagLayout with a builder-pattern-class for creating GridBagConstraints - makes most components one liners but gives me the ability to customise! Makes GridBagLayout easy. Although GridBagLayout has a piss poor interface, he flash thing just demonstrates that bad code is bad code. I appreciate the intent, but I didn't even find it funny enough to provoke a smirk.

Maybe GBL and humor aren't compatible. Bart Kiers Bart Kiers k 35 35 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I tried getting away with using only the simple layouts when I first started Java programming, but quickly found that this led to undesirable behavior when resizing the application window. Marko Joy Malik Joy Malik 31 1 1 bronze badge.

But maybe that's just me : Sheldon. Sheldon R. The Overflow Blog. Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete? Podcast Do polyglots have an edge when it comes to mastering programming Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. An alternative to using CardLayout is using a tabbed pane , which provides similar functionality but with a pre-defined GUI.

For further details, see How to Use CardLayout. FlowLayout is the default layout manager for every JPanel. It simply lays out components in a single row, starting a new row if its container is not sufficiently wide. For further details, see How to Use FlowLayout.

GridBagLayout is a sophisticated, flexible layout manager. It aligns components by placing them within a grid of cells, allowing components to span more than one cell. The rows in the grid can have different heights, and grid columns can have different widths. GridLayout simply makes a bunch of components equal in size and displays them in the requested number of rows and columns.

For further details, see How to Use GridLayout. GroupLayout is a layout manager that was developed for use by GUI builder tools, but it can also be used manually. GroupLayout works with the horizontal and vertical layouts separately. The layout is defined for each dimension independently.