Create Swing GUI with vertically stacked sections

Question

I want to create a GUI in Swing which contains two vertical sections:

+-----------------------+
| labels,textfields     |
|   and buttons         |
+-----------------------+
|                       |
| chart display         |
|                       |
|                       |
+-----------------------+

I want the first section to take about 30% of the vertical space and the second about 70%. How can I achieve this with Java Swing?

This [answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/11166903/1057230), might can help you in that :-) Just use two `JPanel`s as top and bottom and use `GridBagConstraints` providing `weighty = 0.3 for upper JPanel` and `weighty = 0.7 for the lower JPanel`, `weightx = 1.0 for both the JPanel`, that will do. — nIcE cOw, Jan 23 '13 at 12:55

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '13 at 11:19

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I would recomend using GridBagLayout for the cases in which you want to controll the size of the layout's components as it allows to put weights on the components.

How to use GridBagLayout

answered Jan 23 '13 at 11:19

Alfergon

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '13 at 11:29

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See also JSplitPane.setDividerLocation(int) & How to Use Split Panes.

answered Jan 23 '13 at 11:29

Andrew Thompson

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 23 '13 at 11:17

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Use a layout manager like BorderLayout. The top one would go to BorderLayout.NORTH, the bigger one to BorderLayout.CENTER.

answered Jan 23 '13 at 11:17

Dan D.

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Create Swing GUI with vertically stacked sections

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