25.9 Layout Managers: BoxLayout and GridBagLayout
In Chapter 14, we introduced three layout managers—FlowLayout, BorderLayout and GridLayout. This section presents two additional layout managers (summarized in Fig. 25.15). We discuss them in the examples that follow. We also discuss the extremely flexible GroupLayout in Appendix I.
Fig. 25.15 Additional layout managers.
| Layout manager | Description |
|---|---|
BoxLayout |
A layout manager that allows GUI components to be arranged left-to-right or top-to-bottom in a container. Class Box declares a container with BoxLayout as its default layout manager and provides static methods to create a Box with a horizontal or vertical BoxLayout. |
GridBagLayout |
A layout manager similar to GridLayout, but ... |
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