JButton covers other buttons

Question

I have been stuck in this for a while. The problem is that I want to shift my button to the right side of my screen, but when I use borderlayout.east it removes the other button that I created. Can anyone explain why it does so, and how do I fix this problem?

    public static void main(String args[]){
        GUI();

    }


    public static void GUI(){

        handle handle = new handle();
        JButton buy[] = new JButton[8];


        _panel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());


        for(int i = 0; i < buy.length; i++){

            buy[i] = new JButton("Buy");
            _panel.add(buy[i],BorderLayout.EAST);

        }


        _panel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(600,600));        

        //_panel.add(buy, BorderLayout.EAST);

        _frame.add(_panel);
        _frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        _frame.setLocation(500, 100);
        _frame.setResizable(false);
        _frame.getContentPane();
        _frame.pack();
        _frame.setVisible(true);

    }

}

You are adding all button at the same region i.e.`BorderLayout.EAST`, instead you may possibly use [BoxLayout](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/box.html) — , May 23 '14 at 05:31
I have read through BoxLayout, BorderLayout and bag....but none of them work the way I wanted it to. — logger, May 23 '14 at 05:33

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 23 '14 at 05:32

Adding to the layout replaces the other content, you will probably want to add a Panel to the east and then append buttons to that, something like this:

    JPanel subPanel = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
    _panel.add(supPanel, BorderLayout.EAST);

    for(int i = 0; i < buy.length; i++){

        buy[i] = new JButton("Buy");
        subPanel.add(buy[i]);

    }

akash · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-23T06:41:24.450

According to #JavaDoc.

BORDER LAYOUT

A border layout lays out a container, arranging and resizing its components to fit in five regions: north, south, east, west, and center. Each region may contain no more than one component, and is identified by a corresponding constant: NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST, and CENTER.

You are adding all JButtons to east of JPanel.

 for(int i = 0; i < buy.length; i++){
        buy[i] = new JButton("Buy");
        _panel.add(buy[i],BorderLayout.EAST);<-------------
    }

So last one only gets visible at east.

So how should I fix it?

Put all buttons to JPanel (say with GridLayout) and add that JPanel to East of the JFrame or other JPanel.

FOR EXAMPLE

JPanel myPanel=new JPanel();
myPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(Button_array.length-1,1))
for(int i = 0; i < buy.length; i++){
    buy[i] = new JButton("Buy");
    _myPanel.add(buy[i]);
}
_panel.add(myPanel,BorderLayout.EAST)

So how should I fix it? am I able to resize the button or shift it? — logger, May 23 '14 at 05:31

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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This is the General Layout:

General Layout

Check Nested Layout Example for more information.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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