A Visual Guide to Layout Managers - Oracle Help Center
Several AWT and Swing classes provide layout managers for general use: BorderLayout; BoxLayout; CardLayout; FlowLayout; GridBagLayout; GridLayout; GroupLayout; SpringLayout; This section shows example GUIs that use these layout managers, and tells you where to find the how-to page for each layout manager.
How to Use BoxLayout (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With …
The Swing packages include a general purpose layout manager named BoxLayout. BoxLayout either stacks its components on top of each other or places them in a row — your choice. You might think of it as a version of FlowLayout, but with greater functionality.
How to Use Panels (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With …
Like other containers, a panel uses a layout manager to position and size its components. By default, a panel's layout manager is an instance of FlowLayout , which places the panel's contents in a row.
How to Use FlowLayout (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI …
The FlowLayout class provides a very simple layout manager that is used, by default, by the JPanel objects. The following figure represents a snapshot of an application that uses the flow layout: Click the Launch button to run FlowLayoutDemo using Java™ Web Start (download JDK 7 …
How to Use GridLayout (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With …
Creates a grid layout with the specified number of rows and columns. All components in the layout are given equal size. One, but not both, of rows and cols can be zero, which means that any number of objects can be placed in a row or in a column. GridLayout(int rows, int cols, int …
Using Layout Managers (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI …
Layout managers have different strengths and weaknesses. This section discusses some common layout scenarios and which layout managers might work for each scenario.
How to Use CardLayout (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI …
This Swing Java Tutorial describes developing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for applications and applets using Swing components
How to Use BorderLayout (The Java™ Tutorials - Oracle
The following code adds components to a frame's content pane. Because content panes use the BorderLayout class by default, the code does not need to set the layout manager. The complete program is in the BorderLayoutDemo.java file....
How to Use GridBagLayout (The Java™ Tutorials - Oracle
GridBagLayout is one of the most flexible — and complex — layout managers the Java platform provides. A GridBagLayout places components in a grid of rows and columns, allowing specified components to span multiple rows or columns.
How to Use SpringLayout (The Java™ Tutorials - Oracle
SpringLayout is a very flexible layout manager that can emulate many of the features of other layout managers. SpringLayout is, however, very low-level and as such you really should only use it with a GUI builder, rather than attempting to code a spring layout manager by hand.