22.9 BoxLayout Layout Manager
In Chapter 12, we introduced three layout managers—FlowLayout, BorderLayout and GridLayout. This section and Section 22.10 present two additional layout managers (summarized in Fig. 22.15). We discuss them in the examples that follow.
Fig. 22.15 | Additional layout managers.
The BoxLayout layout manager (in package javax.swing) arranges GUI components horizontally along a container’s x-axis or vertically along its y-axis. The application in Figs. 22.16–22.17 demonstrate BoxLayout and the container class Box that uses BoxLayout as its default layout manager.
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