Question

Is there a way to add elements to a gridlayout that adds them horizontally instead of vertically? Basically i want to fill up an entire row with elements before it begins with the next.

Hope i made my question clear.

Answer 1

I would suggest GridBagLayout and GridBagConstraints

It’s a lot like a GridLayout, but with GridBagConstraints you can specify the x and y coordinates of the component, and you can do column and row spans.

It would look something like this:

import java.awt.GridBagConstraints;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;

GridBagLayout layout = new GridBagLayout();
GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();

JPanel panel = new JPanel();
JLabel label = new JLabel("foo");

panel.setLayout(layout);

c.gridx = 0;
c.gridy = 0;
panel.add(label, c);