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nvm I figured out that FlowLayout can put things in columns.

Maybe you should consider a GridLayout?

bah there are so many methods of doing GridBagLayout that I'm not sure with everything I'm doing. For some reason whenever I make buttons on an applet with GridBagLayout, they either overlap each other, to close to each other, or to far apart. Like with this one applet I'm doing the buttons overlap. Here is the part of my code with the GridBagLayout:

GridBagLayout section = new GridBagLayout();
frame.getContentPane ().setLayout(section);
GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();


c.weightx = 1;
c.weighty = 1;
c.gridwidth=5;
c.gridx = 0;
c.gridy = 0;
c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHWEST;
section.setConstraints(textscroll,c);
frame.getContentPane ().add(textscroll);

c.weightx = 0;
c.weighty = 5;
c.gridx = 0;
c.gridy = 1;
c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHWEST;
section.setConstraints(type,c);
frame.getContentPane ().add(type);

c.weightx = 10;
c.weighty = 15;
c.gridx = 5;
c.gridy = 1;
c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHWEST;
section.setConstraints(chButton,c);
frame.getContentPane ().add(chButton);


c.weightx = 1;
c.weighty = 1;
c.gridx = 8;
c.gridy = 0;
c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHEAST;
section.setConstraints(utextscroll,c);
frame.getContentPane ().add(utextscroll);

c.weightx = 0;
c.weighty = 15;
c.gridx = 6;
c.gridy = 1;
c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTH;
section.setConstraints(pmButton,c);
frame.getContentPane ().add(pmButton);

c.weightx = 0;
c.weighty = 15;
c.gridx = 7;
c.gridy = 1;
c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTH;
section.setConstraints(trButton,c);
frame.getContentPane ().add(trButton);

c.weightx = 15;
c.weighty = 15;
c.gridx = 8;
c.gridy = 1;
c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHEAST;
section.setConstraints(batButton,c);
frame.getContentPane ().add(batButton);

My pmButton and trButton over lap each other. If I put pmButton at NORTHWEST, it completely disappears. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Add on:
Okay I've done a couple of applets with GridBagLayout and when I put a component in a grid, it doesn't always stay in that grid. Like if I move the component WEST it goes into the grid next to it or the grid next to that. I thought it was suppose to be like html where a component stays in its grid no matter where you move it, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Am I missing something?

[edited by - DKN on June 1, 2004 3:03:22 AM]

Have you checked out Sun''s tutorial on Layout Managers:

http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/GUI/AWTLayoutMgr/shortcourse.html

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Thanks CaptainJester, that worked.

I wasn't following what Koroljov was saying...someone else suggested GridBagLayout before that. So I do read replies more carefully and now know what I'm doing with GridBagLayout, which works.

[edited by - DKN on June 1, 2004 4:33:44 PM]

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Original post by DKN
Thanks CaptainJester, that worked.

I wasn''t following what Koroljov was saying...someone else suggested GridBagLayout before that. So I do read replies more carefully and now know what I''m doing with GridBagLayout, which works.

[edited by - DKN on June 1, 2004 4:33:44 PM]

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I personally try to stay away from the GridBagLayout and instead just use a bunch of BorderLayouts and other non-gb layouts... unless there is a direct need for it which is very rarely as you can build almost anything with just BorderLayouts...