Java JPanel Help

smithslist

Hi all,

Does anybody know how you can center alignment textboxs, Jbuttons etc within a JPanel in Java.

The situation is that I have 3 sets of Jbuttons with JTextfields, and I want to have 1 on the lefthand side, 2nd in the middle and the 3rd one to the righthand side all of the Jpanel.

Anybody know how its done, help would be great.

thanks guys & girls

signing off......

Giblet

Try different layout managers.
Something like CONTROL.setAlignmentX(CENTER_ALIGNMENT); would work aswell depending on what layout you use.

pH

I thought that a flow layout (center) was the default layout manager, but if not you can try:

panel.setLayout(new java.awt.FlowLayout(java.awt.FlowLayout.CENTER));
panel.add(button1);
panel.add(button2);
panel.add(button3);

smithslist

Sorry I should be more detailed in what I wish to develop, I am creating 6 small JPanels, and I am creating them, one below the other.

The problem is I can get the Labels (and TxtFields) to be central, with setting the size of each labels and the furthest two from the right I have as JLabel.right,

But its the height between the top and bottom of each JLabel(or txtfield) that is different on each side within a single jpanel.

start of jpanel

---

label txtfield label txtfield label txtfield


end of jpanel

---

As you can see here with the space between the start - to - label, and the distance of jpanel end - to - label is different

This is my problem.....

thanks everyone for their help

timeout

If you post a section of code showing what you have done then we can see more clearly where you are going wrong.