Displaying 4 Text Areas in Swing.Help required.

Question

Folks
I need to define 4 Text Areas in Swing in the following pattern:
1 -- 2
3 -- 4
where 1,2 3 and 4 are TextAreas,
As of now I can get 2 text Areas :1 and 3 only by the following code:
public class 4TextAreas extends JFrame
private Container c;
Box b = Box.createVerticalBox();
msgTextArea = new JTextArea(10,15);
b.add(new JScrollPane(msgTextArea));
msgTextArea_2 = new JTextArea(10,15);
b.add(new JScrollPane(msgTextArea_2));
c = getContentPane();
c.add(b);
setSize(250,250);
this.show();
Please can any one help as to how to get TextArea 2 and 4 please.
Do I need to crate another Box object called b1?
Please reply.

Answer 1

You could try creating two vertical boxes, adding two textareas to each and then add the vertical boxes to a horizontal box. ( or two horizontals to a vertical, of course).
Also you could try a different layout manager such as a gridlayout or gridbaglayout.
Cheers
DB