Multiple Components and Layout Managers

This applet shows how to replace the applet's default layout manager, the FlowLayout manager, with a BorderLayout manager. The BorderLayout manager is then used to place one component, a Button, above another, a TextField.

  public void init() {

  // Change the layout manager to the BorderLayout manager

    setLayout(new BorderLayout());

  // Add a Button and a TextField

    Button button1 = new Button("Button #1");
    add("North", button1);

    TextField textfield1 = new TextField("Default Value", 10);
    add("South", textfield1);

  }

The layout managers supplied with the JDK are:

FlowLayout		FlowLayout is used to arrange components left to right until no more components fit on the same line. Each line is centered.
BorderLayout		BorderLayout arranges components around the border of a container using the cardinal directions "North", "South", "West", and "East". Any room left over from these regions is assigned to the "Center" region.
GridLayout		Arranges components in an equally spaced grid pattern.
CardLayout		A layout manager for a container that contains several "cards". Only one card is visible at a time, allowing you to flip through the cards.
GridBagLayout		GridBagLayout is the most flexible layout manager. It aligns components vertically and horizontally, without requiring that the components be the same size. Each component is associated with a set of GridBagConstraints which specify the positions, spacing, and growth properties of each component.

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