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Tour page 2: Use Layout Managers previous next
| A border layout lays out a container, arranging and resizing its components to fit in five regions: north, south, east, west, and center. |
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| Border layout may be used in frames to separate it in regions which are used in most window applications. |
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Components in Java
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A component is an object having a graphical representation that can be displayed on the screen and that can interact with the user. Examples of components are the buttons, checkboxes, labels, textfields and scrollbars of a typical graphical user interface. |
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Layout manager arrange components in a container. Some of these are: FlowLayout arranges from left to right, CardLayout like a stack of cards, GridLayout like rows and columns in a table.
GridBagLayout is a flexible layout manager that aligns components vertically and horizontally. |
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