I'm trying to build a GUI window in my application. What I'm trying to do is have a window, with a few buttons at the top, and a large text area. Something like this: +----------------------------...

I'm trying to design a JButton (an "Ok" button) that to look good has to be horizontally centered in the containing JFrame. I'm using the GUI Builder with the Free Form layout (GroupLayout). I'v...

I looked around at all the other answers, but they all recommend to use GroupLayout, BoxLayout, or to wrap the panel that's using GridBagLayout with another panel that uses one of the layouts menti...

I'm attempting to create a small Jpanel with a GroupLayout infront of it. Having followed the documentation as much as possible as well as looked at a number of StackOverflow questions, I'm still s...

I need to build a GUI using GroupLayout (not other layouts). The GUI will look like the following: ---------------------------- | field 1 field 2 field 3 | | FFIEEELLLDD4 FIELDDDDDD5 | | FIEEEEE...

It's Monday morning where I am, which means it's time for me to fail at Java Swing! But in all seriousness, I cannot figure out why my dynamically created JTable refuses to show itself once added t...

Am trying to set a background image for my frame but it does not work. I tried this link: Setting background images in JFrame The code: setContentPane(new JLabel(new ImageIcon(ImageIO.read(new F...

Not sure why this error is coming up. I am using GroupLayout because I want it to do the spacing for me and will be adding more panels to the frame in the future. Below is the stack trace. Excepti...

What is the easiest way to build a form in Java using GroupLayout? With form, I mean something that has text fields with a label in front. Something like this:

Is there a way to iterate over a List of Components and add them to a ParallelGroup in Swing GroupLayout? It seems difficult because there is no method to get hold of the ParallelGroup. Here is ...

I'm using Swing GroupLayout and I'm confused about the values GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE and GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE. I never know when to use each one of them in methods like GroupLayout.addCompo...

I'm using GroupLayout to manage components in some dynamically generated data input forms. The layout is more or less like so: *-----------------------------------------------* | label A | field A...

I am getting a long list of errors. Can anyone suggest to me where I am going wrong with GroupLayout. layout.setHorizontalGroup( layout.createSequentialGroup() .addComponent(new JLabel("Enter Bo...