I am using a swing JPanel, with the standard flow layout. I have 3 components in the panel; JLabel, JTextField and JButton.
I want to have it so I have the JLabel on its own line, then the JTextField and JButton next to each other on the next line.

A BorderLayout does not work because it seems you cant have two components in the same (CENTER) area.
A box layout does not work because it puts all 3 on a separate lines.

Is a GridBagLayout the only way to achieve this?

cheers!

Put the JTextField and JButton into another JPanel and add the (sub)JPanel and the JButton to the main JPanel?

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disclaimer, i didn't check any of the syntax, so just use this as a concept -- dont try to copy and paste the code:

Box hBox = Box.createHorizontalBox();
Box vBox = Box.createVerticalBox();

hBox.add(new JTextField("blah"));
hBox.add (new JButton("Click Me"));

vBox.add(new JLabel("enter Blah"));
vBox.add(hBox);

you get something like


-----------
| 1 | <--- vertical box
| |
|-------- |
| | |
| 2 | 3 | <--- horizontal box nested in vBox
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ciderpunx suggestion works too -- I like to do it this way so I don't have to create a lot of other classes. But I have some background in web stuff / using tables for layout so I'm used to thinking in that way -- if you're not, that solution may seem a bit stilted and hard to use to you; in that case, go with the sub-JPanels.


Regards,
Meredith Shaebanyan