GridLayout

[Christian Long]

I'm having problems on layouts.
I am trying to use GridLayout(5,4)

p.add(button1)
p.add(b2)
p.add(b3)
p.add(b4)

Can I specify where the button 2 will be placed? I would like to place button3 in colum 2, row2.

[Ulf Dittmer]

The elements of GridLayout are layed left-to-right (or right-to-left, like its javadocs mention) and top-to-bottom. So to put something in column 2 of row 2, you need to fill up row 1 first, and then column 1 of row 2. If you don't have real GUI elements for those places, you can use JLabel with no text to keep those spots empty.

An alternative would be to use the (more complicated) GridBagLayout class.