Chapter 12. Layout Managers

Topics in This Chapter

  • How layout managers simplify interface design

  • The FlowLayout manager

  • The BorderLayout manager

  • The GridLayout manager

  • The CardLayout manager

  • The GridBagLayout manager

  • The BoxLayout manager

  • Hand-positioning components

  • Strategies for using layout managers effectively

When a Container is created in the Java programming language, the container automatically gets an associated helper object known as a layout manager to give sizes and positions to the components inside it. The layout manager is intended to free the programmer from the burden of positioning each component pixel-by-pixel when the components may be different sizes on different platforms, when the main windows may be interactively resized or customized ...

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