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copied!<p>As with learning any GUI software, experimentation is best. Try messing with BorderLayouts with nested JPanels.</p> <p>Ultimately, you use JPanel with a BorderLayout (Flow Layout is OK but really when resizing the window, it epically fails). See <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/border.html" rel="nofollow">http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/border.html</a> to learn more about BorderLayouts.</p> <p>Now for your layout scheme it should be something along the lines of:</p> <ol> <li>Top Level Container: JFrame</li> <li>JFrame contains a JPanel (Call this JPanel 1) with a BorderLayout.</li> <li>The three buttons should be in a SEPARATE jPanel (JPanel 2). JPanel 1 should add the three buttons as BorderLayout.CENTER. In this way, the window will resize if the button changes its width and/or hright.</li> <li>The JLabel should be added as BorderLayout.LINE_START.</li> </ol> <p>The tutorial at: <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/border.html" rel="nofollow">http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/border.html</a> should help you with this. But in general, use the following:</p> <ul> <li>Use JPanel and nest JPanels as necessary</li> <li>BorderLayout.CENTER will accomodate size changes---this is the key! (Experiment with this)</li> <li>JFrame should only be used as a top level container (for more complex GUIs, this is true).</li> </ul> <p>If you require more flexibility, check out JGoodies: <a href="http://www.jgoodies.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jgoodies.com/</a> . This is more along the lines of creating forms.</p>

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