FlowLayout Behavior : FlowLayout « Swing « Java Tutorial

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2. Swing
3. FlowLayout

import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.JTextField;

public class FlowLayoutBehaviour extends JFrame {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    FlowLayoutBehaviour ft = new FlowLayoutBehaviour();
    ft.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    ft.setSize(400, 300);
    ft.setVisible(true);
  }

  public FlowLayoutBehaviour() {
    super();
    Container pane = getContentPane();
    pane.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
    pane.add(new JLabel("This is a test"));
    pane.add(new JButton("of a FlowLayout"));
    pane.add(new JTextField(30));
    pane.add(new JTextArea("This is a JTextArea", 3, 10));
    pane.add(new JLabel("This is a FlowLayout test with a long string"));
  }

}

14.89.FlowLayout
	14.89.1.	Laying Out Components in a Flow (Left-to-Right, Top-to-Bottom)
	14.89.2.	Three constructors available for the FlowLayout manager.
	14.89.3.	Layout manager
	14.89.4.	FlowLayout: the default layout manager for a JPanel.
	14.89.5.	FlowLayout Behavior
	14.89.6.	Using FlowLayout
	14.89.7.	Changing the Gap
	14.89.8.	Setting the gaps between components and rows explicitly by calling the setHgap()
	14.89.9.	Demonstrates how to fix common alignment problems
	14.89.10.	Use FlowLayout to hold checkBox, Label and TextField