How to change FlowLayout to BoxLayout in JFrame

Question

I've been working on this for a bit and for the life of me can't get anywhere. I'm trying to set the buttons and labels to set on top of one another rather than side by side. I figure I have to change the layout form FlowLayout to BoxLayout but I can't figure out how to do that. This is what I have so far.

import javax.swing.JFrame;

public class VoteCounter
{
    //----------------------------------------------
    // Creates the main program frame.
    //----------------------------------------------
    public static void main(String[] args)
{
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("Vote Counter");

    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.getContentPane().add(new VoteCounterPanel());
    frame.pack();
    frame.setVisible(true);
}
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 21 '15 at 13:51

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frame.setLayout(new BoxLayout(frame, BoxLayout.PAGE_AXIS));

quite simple.

For further information, please refer to: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/box.html

answered Jan 21 '15 at 13:51

X-Fate

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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The default Layout of JPanel is FlowLayout. You can change the panel's Layout like:

JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(null,BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));

Here is an example to use BoxLayout:

choosing the best Layout for this jframe

Also, you can use BoxLayout to set white space:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/22525005/3378204

Hope that it will help you.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

Community

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answered Jan 21 '15 at 13:59

Eugene

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How to change FlowLayout to BoxLayout in JFrame

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