How to fine tune your GUI?

Question

Hello!
I am pretty new at Java and i have search for information about how to fine tune your GUI but have not found anything.
Last time when i wrote a program with a GUI I manually placed out all the widgets. This time I was thinking to give the layotmanager another go. But when I do I cant seem to easly place things exactly where I whant.
For instance in this code, all my buttons are to the left in the boarder layout north part.
I whant to learn:
How do I move all the buttons to the right, little further down, etcetera to my specifications
Please if someone could provide me a link to a website, tip on what I need to search for. So I can learn how to do this when you mix diffrent layoutmanager in one GUI.
Example of my code:
//Import java library
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
public class View_Inlupp2 {
     //*****GUI Components
     //Menu File Items
     private JMenuItem New = new JMenuItem("New");
     private JMenuItem Open = new JMenuItem("Open");
     private JMenuItem Save = new JMenuItem("Save");
     private JMenuItem Save_As = new JMenuItem("Save as");
     //Menu Operations Items
     private JMenuItem Find_Route = new JMenuItem("Find Route");
     private JMenuItem Show_Connections = new JMenuItem("Show Connections");
     private JMenuItem New_Place = new JMenuItem("New Place");
     private JMenuItem New_Connection = new JMenuItem("New Connection");
     private JMenuItem Change_Connection = new JMenuItem("Change Connection");
     //Top field
     private JButton Find_RouteBtn = new JButton("Find Route");
     private JButton Show_ConnectionsBtn = new JButton("Show Connections");
     private JButton New_PlaceBtn = new JButton("New Place");
     private JButton New_ConnectionBtn = new JButton("New Connection");
     private JButton Change_ConnectionBtn = new JButton("Change Connection");
     //Left side
     //Center
     public View_Inlupp2() {
          //Create and show the GUI.
          createAndShowGUI();
     //**********GUI Structure
     private JPanel createContentPane() {
          //Create the JPanel where we will put everything on
          JPanel totalGUI = new JPanel();
          //Set totalGui to have a BorderLayout with a horizontal
          //gap of 10 and a vertical gap of 10 between each widget
          totalGUI.setLayout(new BorderLayout(10, 10));
          //*****Top Field
          //Create a holder for the buttons with a BoxLayout.LINE_AXIS
          JPanel top = new JPanel();
          top.setLayout(new BoxLayout(top, BoxLayout.LINE_AXIS));
          top.add(Find_RouteBtn);
          top.add(Show_ConnectionsBtn);
          top.add(New_PlaceBtn);
          top.add(New_ConnectionBtn);
          top.add(Change_ConnectionBtn);
          //*****Put our GUI together and add all the widgets to our totalGUI
          totalGUI.add(top, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          totalGUI.setOpaque(true);
          return totalGUI;
     private JMenuBar createMenuBar() {
          //Create a menuBar
          JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
          //Create menus
          JMenu File = new JMenu("File");
          JMenu Operations = new JMenu("Operations");
          //Add menus to menuBar
          menuBar.add(File);
          menuBar.add(Operations);
          //Add menuItems to the File menu
          File.add(New);
          File.add(Open);
          File.add(Save);
          File.add(Save_As);
          //Add menuItems to the Operations menu
          Operations.add(Find_Route);
          Operations.add(Show_Connections);
          Operations.add(New_Place);
          Operations.add(New_Connection);
          Operations.add(Change_Connection);
          return menuBar;
     //**********Create the window frame
     //Create the frame and add the created content pane.
     private void createAndShowGUI() {
          JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true); //The program look the same on Windows, Mac and Linux
          JFrame frame = new JFrame("Inlupp2");
          //Set the ContentPane, menuBar, and the settings for our window
          frame.setContentPane(createContentPane());
          frame.setJMenuBar(createMenuBar());
          frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          frame.setSize(1024, 640);
          //frame.setResizable(false);
          frame.setVisible(true);
     //**********Interaction
     //Add the ActionListener passed by the Controller to each of the buttons
     public void buttonActionListeners(ActionListener al) {
     }//End buttonActionListener
}//End class

Answer 1

First of all, learn and use proper Java naming conventions. All text books, tutorial and code examples on the forums use these naming conventions. So don't make up your own. Variable names should NOT start with an upper case character.
By default a JPanel uses a FlowLayout. Read the API to learn how to change the default left alignment to center or right.
If you want extra space around a panel you can use an EmptyBorder.
Both of these topics are covered in the Swing tutorial and you've been given the link to the tutorial in the past.
Also, the code you posted is not executable so we can't see the problems you attempt to descripe.
If you need further help then you need to create a [Short, Self Contained, Compilable and Executable, Example Program (SSCCE)|http://sscce.org], that demonstrates the incorrect behaviour.