Question

Trying to build a GUI application in Java/Swing. I’m mainly used to ‘painting’ GUIs on the Windows side with tools like VB (or to be more precise, Gupta SQLWindows… wonder how many people know what that is ;-)).

I can’t find an equivalent of a Group Box in Swing…

With a group box, you have a square box (usually with a title) around a couple of related widgets. One example is a group box around a few radio buttons (with the title explaining what the radio buttons are about, e.g. Group Box entitled ‘Sex’ with ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ radio buttons).

I’ve searched around a bit… the only way I found was to add a sub-pane, set the border on the sub-pane and then add all the widgets in the ‘group’ to the sub-pane. Is there a more elegant way to do that?

Answer 1

Create a JPanel, and add your radiobuttons to it. Don’t forget to set the layout of the JPanel to something appropriate.

Then call panel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder(name));