Help point me in the right direction please??

Question

Hey whats up. Im trying to make a calendar for my applet. the problem i have is that for each cell in the calendar i want to print 3 lines of information (ie: line 1: day, line 2: some status, line 3: some status)
ive looked into using JTables but as far as I have seen I can only have 1 line of data for each cell. I was thinking maybe i coudl make a custom JLabel or panel and insert that into each cell...but im not sure if that would work or how to go about doing that.
does anyone have any suggestions on what path i should take in trying to do this?
should I not do JTables and take a different approach?
thanks
-ray

Answer 1

I need some help please...
below is a snippet from my calendar. these panels are the indiviual squares in the calendar. My problem is that I make 3 labels but no matter how i format it...all three labels appear directly next to each other. Ive tried various layouts...some of stuff ive tried is still commented out. the only way to get the proper layout is by adding the ugly spaces that I have in there to FORCE the label down. Im not sure why its doing this. LIke i mentioned ive tried almost all the various layout managers to get this right but no luck. maybe im not doing them right..i dont know.
any suggestions??
private class GridPanel extends JPanel {
        private JPanel panel;
        private JLabel dayLabel;
        private JLabel resultLabel;
        private JLabel scoreLabel;
        private String score;
        private Color resultColor;
        public GridPanel(int dayNum, String result) {
            panel = new JPanel();
            //panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
            panel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100,100));
            //System.out.print(panel.getPreferredSize());
            dayLabel = new JLabel("        "+new Integer(dayNum).toString()+"      ");
            resultLabel = new JLabel("        "+result+"      ");
            scoreLabel = new JLabel(score);
            GenerateScore(result);
            JLabel scoreLabel = new JLabel(score);
            removeAll();
            dayLabel.setFont(new Font("Serif",Font.BOLD,12));
            add(dayLabel,panel);
            resultLabel.setForeground(resultColor);
            scoreLabel.setForeground(resultColor);
            add(resultLabel,panel);
            add(scoreLabel);
            //resultLabel.setAlignmentX(Component.CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
            //dayLabel.setBounds(0,100,25,25);
            //resultLabel.setBounds(50,50,25,25);
        }