Thread: button positioning

GridBagLayout has the ability to do what you need, but there are far easier Layout Managers available to do your task.

I recommend using GridLayout for this task, as it is very easy and useful.

The ways you could do this are:

• Use a JFrame's default LayoutManager (BorderLayout) to add one JPanel to BorderLayout.WEST and add another JPanel to BorderLayout.EAST where each JPanel uses a GridLayout of 3x1 (Row x Column).
  
• Another way would be to change the JFrame's LayoutManager to GridLayout of 1x2 and then add two JPanels like the above.
  
• Or change the JFrame's LayoutManger to 3x2 and add all components to the JFrame.

Which ever approach you take (from my suggestion), you will be using GridLayout, so follow the link I provided for a guide.

Heres an example of what I mean.

    public JPanel jButtonPanel(){
    JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel();
    buttonPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(3,1));
 
    buttonPanel.add(myButton);
    buttonPanel.add(myButton2);
    buttonPanel.add(myButton3);
 
    return buttonPanel;
    }

You would then add jButtonPanel() to your JFrame, and do the same for jTextFieldPanel().
Hope this helps.