Question

Why are there these stupid layout managers which position my stuff. I can understand doing that on mobile platforms, where there’re many different device sizes. But that’s not my target. I want to freely position any component based on coordinates, like a TabbedPane, ScrollPane – where I want it.

Is there any layout-manager that let’s me do what I want? Like it is common with Qt Designer, WPF, WindowsForms, and so on? Like it has to be?

Answer 1

if you want to use absolute positions:

myPanel.setLayout(null);
JButton myButton = new JButton(myPanel);
myButton.setBounds(left, top, width, height);