Sinple GUI Program which uses the BorderLayout.

[Priyank Kalgaonkar]

I need to write a Java program to display a screen like the following screen, which uses the BorderLayout.

This is what my output is supposed to be:
or View Here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u1pqz588b8cofxo/Untitled1.png

I tried writing the code for this program. But I am not able to do so. Following is my code:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
 
public class GUI extends JFrame 
{
	public GUI()
	{
		setLayout(new BorderLayout(1000,2000));
 
		add(new JButton("Java"), BorderLayout.NORTH);
		add(new JButton("Programming"), BorderLayout.CENTER);
		add(new JButton("Is Not So Easy"), BorderLayout.NORTH);
		add(new JButton("Linear Data Structers!"), BorderLayout.SOUTH);
	}
 
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		GUI frame = new GUI();
		frame.setTitle("EECS 1570");
		frame.setSize(600,400);
		frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		frame.setVisible(true);
	}
}

Please can you help me get the output like the one in the attached picture file? Thanks for your help. Much appreciated!

[Michael Dunn]

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[Ranganathan Kaliyur Mannar]

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[Aleksey Vladimirovich]

Try something like this:

import java.awt.*;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.swing.*;
   
public class GUI extends JFrame {  
    
    public GUI() {  
        try {
            UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(GUI.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
        JPanel mainPane = new JPanel(new GridLayout(1, 2, 0, 0));
                  
        JPanel westPane = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
        westPane.setBackground(Color.PINK);
        westPane.add(new JButton("Java"));
        westPane.add(new JButton("Programming"));
        mainPane.add(westPane);
        
        JPanel eastPane = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
        eastPane.setBackground(Color.YELLOW);
        eastPane.add(new JButton("Is Not So Easy."));
        mainPane.add(eastPane);       
        
        this.getContentPane().add(mainPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        
        JPanel southPane = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
        southPane.setBackground(Color.BLUE);
        southPane.add(new JButton("Linear Data Structures !"));
        
        this.getContentPane().add(southPane, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
 
    }  
   
    public static void main(String[] args)  
    {  
        GUI frame = new GUI();  
        frame.setTitle("EECS 1570");  
        frame.setSize(400, 250);  
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);  
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);  
        frame.setVisible(true);  
    } 
    
}  

If you need pink and yellow areas to be of different sizes, try to apply a different LayoutManager for mainPane.