Fun toolbar question

Question

you know how some programs with toolbars have multiple toolbars at the top? (open up MS word for an example) I wish to implement that, except only one toolbar may be in BorderLayout.PAGE_START position, trying to put more than one overwrites whatever was there first.
so I put all my toolbars in a pane with default FlowLayout, and then put that on the main panel at PAGE_START, which looks fine... until I resize my window, then all my toolbars are centered at the top of the window rather than left justified at the top.
I've tried doing panels inside panels... toolbar panel inside the left slot of another toolbar panel with gridlayout(1,2), thinking toolbar panel would always stay to the left
I've tried toolbarpanel.setAlignmentX(LEFT)... which says for vertical? alignment... and so also setAlignmentY(LEFT)... which says for horizontal? alignment, thinking this would keep my toolbars added to the panel to the left
I've tried toolbarpanel.setMaxSize(preferredSize) thinking that the panel resizes and centers its contents within, so don't let it resize
I've just been banging my head on this problem and trying solutions that are more and more complicated when I'm sure there must be an easy way to have multiple toolbars at the top left of the screen. also, collecting the toolbars inside a panel, other than the main program panel, makes it so I cannot anchor the toolbars on edges of the main panel, so the problem is even trickier.

Answer 1

Howdy.
Have you tried:
     JPanel p_toolbars = new JPanel(new FlowLayout(SwingConstants.WEST));
          p_toolbars.add(toolbar_docParts);
          p_toolbars.add(toolbar_charAtts);regards
sjl