Question

I’m doing a school project and need help with the Layout because it’s doing some funky stuff.

I only need help with the south panel. The south panel is organized something like this:

           JRadioButton JLabel1 JLabel2
           JRadioButton JLabel1 JLabel2
    JLabel3--------JTextField----------JButton

I’ve tried the following:

1. Set the south JPanel to a gridlayout with 3 rows
2. Another JPanel also with a gridlayout with 3 rows added to the first row of the gridlayout.
3. Repeat #2 with the second and third rows. The second row has 3 rows by 3 columns.
4. Added the components in the appropriate rows/columns.

Doesn’t format the way I need it to. I’ve tried some other techniques I can’t remember. Any suggestions? Thank you. Here’s a picture of what the south panel should look like: http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?d14a73db5e.jpg

It starts at the “Start Date…”

Answer 1

Create a new JPanel and use Group Layout for that.

Like this http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1403/capturadepantalla201001bo.png

Using group layout allows you to specify the components that will go in the horizontal group and the components that will go in the vertical group.

c1, c2, c3
c4, c5, c6
panel[ c7, c8, c9 ]

Here’s how I layout the image above:

    // Layout Horizontal components 
    layout.setHorizontalGroup(
        layout.createSequentialGroup()
        .addGroup( 
            layout.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addComponent( c1 )
            .addComponent( c4 )
        ).addGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
                .addComponent( c2 )
                .addComponent( c5)
        ).addGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
                .addComponent( c3 )
                .addComponent( c6 )
        )

    );

    // Layout vertical components 
    layout.setVerticalGroup(
        layout.createSequentialGroup()
        .addGroup( 
             layout.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
             .addComponent( c1 )
             .addComponent( c2 )
             .addComponent( c3 )
         ).addGroup(
             layout.createParallelGroup(GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                 .addComponent( c4 )
                 .addComponent( c5 )
                 .addComponent( c6 ) 
        )
    );

    southPanel.add( panel ); // the start-end dates
    southPanel.add( bookIt, BorderLayout.SOUTH ); // the enter your name... 

Give it a try.