Using BorderLayout for adding 4 in-line Components to a JPanel

Question

In my application, there are 4 panels. And i need to insert them into the main panel, which uses BorderLayout. The 4 panels are...

A thin Image strip.
4 buttons just below above
A TextField covering the complete page.
An about at end.

This is my code...

    add(imageLabel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
    add(buttonPanel,BorderLayout.PAGE_START);
    add(logScrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    add(about, BorderLayout.PAGE_END);

When I do this, the buttonPanel disappears. How can I achieve what I need?

wattostudios · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-31 12:22:31Z

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I usually try to keep a maximum of 3 components in any BorderLayout, so I would do it like this...

JPanel outerPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
JPanel innerPanel= new JPanel(new BorderLayout());

innerPanel.add(buttonPanel,BorderLayout.NORTH);
innerPanel.add(logScrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
innerPanel.add(about, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

outerPanel.add(imageLabel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
outerPanel.add(innerPanel,BorderLayout.CENTER);

As long as you keep the 'maximum-stretched' component in the CENTER (in this case, your logScrollPane) then it'll always work. If you want to use the panel, such as setting it on a JFrame, just use add(outerPanel).

Don't be afraid of BorderLayout - the ability of this layout to auto-expand the CENTER component to fill the available space make it a very powerful and very important LayoutManager!

edited Oct 31, 2012 at 12:22

answered Oct 31, 2012 at 12:14

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2 Comments

Jatin Over a year ago

Thanks :). Swing does take a toll. There should be an mvc like framework to make applciation quickly. Netbeans GUI is still a major help

trashgod Over a year ago

@Jatin: See also this MVC outline and example.

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