Swing Component Alignment

[bertzzie]

Hi,

I'm learning how to build GUI using the standard Swing widget on Scala. Here's what I want to do:

I've had success in **creating** the components, but failed on **aligning** it. All of my components are aligned centered, not like what I want (Button1 on left, table on center, and button2 on right). I can't find much information about Scala's Swing either. Most of the search result is about Java's (which I don't know anything about). What should I do to force the alignment?

Here's the code:

    contents += new BoxPanel(Orientation.Vertical) {

        contents += new Button("Button 1")

        contents += new Table(3, 3)

        contents += new Button("Button 2")

    }

The result:

Thanks before.

(I've cross posted from Stackoverflow (original thread) because there seems to be no answer there. Please tell me if this is not allowed. Thanks before).

[Stefan Hoeck]

BoxPanel might be not flexibel enough for what you want. If you want flexibility, go for GridBagPanel. It uses a GridBagLayout (documented in Java's Swing documentation). It's more complex to use than a BoxLayout, but it gives you (almost) complete freedom about how your components are aligned. See also:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/gridbag.html

By the way, if you just want to align your components in a horizontal line (Button1 on the left, table in the middle and Button2 on the right), you might try
new BoxPanel(Orientation.Horizontal)