Aligning textfields, label, and scrollbars in a gridlayout

Hi,
I am making an application whose content pane has a null layout. I added a JPanel on the content pane and changed it's layout to gridlayout with 2 columns and 5 rows. I added 1 label, 4 scrollbars and 4 textfields to this. Now I want the Label to be at the top row occupying both the columns and the scrollbars to be aligned on the left side of the gridlayout and textfields on the right side. I used an array to declare my scroll bars and textfields. When I run my application the label, scrollbars and textfields are arranged very haphazardly. Can somebody help me on how to arrange these like i want to?
Thanx
Sugar

Hi!
Have you considered to use a GridBagLayout ??? Check it out...
/Andrew

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Date:     2009-10-06 09:29:53 -0700 (Tue, 06 Oct 2009)
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Add FTETextTests which check that a Label and NumericStepper configured to use FTEText have a textField and textInput, respectively, of type UIFTETextField and MXFTETextInput. The components are configured via style properties rather than by theme which would require another version/compile of the BasicTests.swf.
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                  required="#{bindings.Termsandconditions.hints.mandatory}"
                  columns="#{bindings.Termsandconditions.hints.displayWidth}"
                  maximumLength="#{bindings.Termsandconditions.hints.precision}"
                  shortDesc="#{bindings.Termsandconditions.hints.tooltip}"
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                  columns="#{bindings.PractitionerNumber.hints.displayWidth}"
                  maximumLength="#{bindings.PractitionerNumber.hints.precision}"
                  shortDesc="#{bindings.PractitionerNumber.hints.tooltip}"
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My spark app has a control bar at the top and i want to right-align a label inside it so my button bar is on the left and my label is on the right. I tried using the 'horizontalAlign="right"' which works find inside a s:panel but not inside a s:controlBarContent. Does anyone have any idea how to achieve this please? Also, the flash builder 4 ide won't let you move the label over in design mode either...
Thanks for your help,
Regards,
Mark.

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Mark.

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This is the default alignment of the following components on a panelForm
15. Total Already Paid: inputText box here
16. Due for Payment (14-15): inputText box here
But I wanted to align them as follow.
15. Total Already Paid: inputText box here
16. Due for Payment (14-15): inputText box here
Message was edited by:
V.Piraba

Thank you Frank. I think my question was not clear. All I need is that I wanted to align the labels of af:inputText to the left and the input text boxes of af:inputText to middle as they are aligned when we put them on af:panelForm.
Please look at the following format that is how I wanted to display all my inputText.
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Message was edited by:
V.Piraba

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