Gridbaglayout:- middling the elusive OK CANCEL buttons

Hey guys,
I constantly use Gridbaglayout in all my windows. But what constantly evades me is how to get the "ok " and "cancel" button to middle in the window at the bottom.
What is the trick? I try various settings that should apparently work but they don't. I have gotton it right once but am unable to figure out why it works (but it only works on windows, on linux the layout is messed up again).
Regards.

There is some sort of misbelief that you can only use a single panel when laying out a GUI. I can't even guess how much extra work and frustration this has caused. Swing containers are designed ot be nested to create GUIs.
Here's my suggest:
Create a main JPanel and set its layout to BorderLayout.
Creat another JPanel with your other components, less Ok and canel Button. Add this panel to the main panel using BorderLayout.CENTER.
create a third panel and add the Ok and cancel buttons to it. Add this panel to main panel using BorderLayout.SOUTH.
To give your gui a really professional look I would even create a fourth panel set to gridlayout e.g new GridLayout(1,0,5,5). add your buttons to this panel and add this panel to the one in SOUTH. This will center the buttons and make them equal size with a small gap between them.
Cheers
DB

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