Question

I have a GridLayout 2 rows by 5 columns, and I want to make the height of the first row to something like 50, and the second row to 200. I know GridLayout creates equally-sized cells, so this didn’t work out. I also tried splitting the two rows into two GridLayouts setting their desired heights and adding them to a FlowLayout, but the columns didn’t align the way I wanted it to. My code went something like this:

row1.setSize(WIDTH, 50); //GridLayout
row2.setSize(WIDTH, 200); //GridLayout
panel.add(row1);
panel.add(row2); //panel is a FlowLayout

The columns aligning are very important and I can’t seem to get this right.

Answer 1

I’d look into GridBagLayout. Although, almost everyone I’ve talked seems to dislike it. I like it, though.