I want to make an account screen for a project, but I'm still new to GUI's. This is my first time working with a JComboBox and I'm having a bit of trouble. I want to basically place the JComboBox inside a box, which will be part of my background image. I tried using BorderLayout, but that just made a giant combobox that took up my entire screen. I have my code here and a drawing which illustrates my goal below:
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See this answer for 2 layouts that can easily center the panel containing the combo box.
Use borders and layout padding within that panel for the white space required.

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[use setPrototypeDisplayValue](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8679421/why-jcombobox-ignore-prototypedisplayvalue) – mKorbel Apr 15 '13 at 18:23