Android's LinearLayout for Swing

Question

Is there a LayoutManager for Swing that acts as LinearLayout in Android? I like an idea of components weights very much.

Answer 1

You can use the FlowLayout, GridLayout or BorderLayout. In my experience in building GUI in java, I mostly use combinations of BorderLayouts (most of the time) and GridLayouts.

Layout Basics

If you want it to look like

the code is:

public void initComponents() {

    jButton1 = new javax.swing.JButton();
    jButton2 = new javax.swing.JButton();
    jButton3 = new javax.swing.JButton();
    jButton4 = new javax.swing.JButton();

    setLayout(new java.awt.GridLayout(0, 1));

    jButton1.setText("jButton1");
    add(jButton1);

    jButton2.setText("jButton2");
    add(jButton2);

    jButton3.setText("jButton3");
    add(jButton3);

    jButton4.setText("jButton4");
    add(jButton4);
}

Answer 2

If you need individual weights use GridBagLayout. Or you can try BoxLayout.