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John McGrath [TeamB] wrote:
> On 11/6/2004 at 11:48:24 PM, Innominate Innominate wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm trying to add a number of simple Swing elements to a JPanel 
>>that is using a GridLayout. When I add a JComboBox to the panel, 
>>the box is sized so as to entirely fill its portion of the grid.
>>Is there a setting I can make so that the box's size can be 
>>determined, probably at runtime, in an appropriate way, given
>>the font in use at the time?
> 
> 
> A GridLayout always lays out each child component at the same size.
> You could place a panel in the grid, and your component in the panel, 
> so that the panel's layout would determine the size and placement of
> the component within the grid cell.
> 
> You might also want to look at other layouts, such as GridBagLayout.  
> It  has the features that you are asking for.
> 

Okay, I added a Grid layout, with 2 columns to my panel. Then I added
JPanels to 6 grid areas and a GridBag layout to each. To test this, I
added a JComboBox to a few of the panels. The combo box formatted
nicely w/o any difficulty and appeared the same when I executed the
program as it did when I designed it.

Thank You. I've been hearing about GridBag layouts and that they
should be used with nested layouts but I also heard that they were
difficult for beginners to work with. This is encouraging.

Thanks again,