Question

I have a question about laying out some swing components.

Say, I have a JPanel which contains a JLabel and a JTextField. I want JLabel to be drawn on the left-most side of JPanel, and JTextField to be drawn on the right-most side of JPanel. I tried using BoxLayout and Horizontal Glues, but I couldn’t make it work. Can somebody explain how this should be done? And by the way, I also should be able to set the JTextField’s size, which will grow from right to left.

EDIT: Here is my class, it’s pretty simple.

public class TextField extends JPanel {
    private JLabel label;
    private JTextField textField;
    public TextField(String labelText){
        this.label = new JLabel(labelText);
        this.textField = new JTextField("");
        Box horizontalBox = Box.createHorizontalBox();
        horizontalBox.add(label);
        horizontalBox.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
        horizontalBox.add(textField);
        add(horizontalBox);
    }
}

Answer 1

You could also use border layout and add the label using the BorderLayout.WEST option and the TextField using the BorderLayout.EAST option.