Problem in using bar ??

Question

Hi to all friends here ,
i made a bar the i put on it some buttons and i put also comboBox but when i put comboBox the comboBox take all the space that rest in the bar ...
so i decide to put the comboBox on label then put the label on bar
but unfortuantly the label not appear ...
I want to know the correct way for codeing this ...
Here is my code:-
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
public class BarTest extends JFrame {
    private JMenuBar barIcon = new JMenuBar();
    private final JLabel labelsizeComboBox;
    private final JComboBox sizeComboBox;
    private final JButton[] buttons;
    private String[] images = {"new.JPG", "open.JPG", "save.JPG", "copy.JPG", "paste.JPG"};
    private String[] imageName = {"new", "open", "save", "copy", "paste"};
    private final ImageIcon[] imagicons;
    public BarTest() {
        barIcon = new JMenuBar();
        labelsizeComboBox = new JLabel();
        sizeComboBox = new JComboBox();
        for (int i = 6; i < 72; i += 4) {
            sizeComboBox.addItem(i);
        labelsizeComboBox.add(sizeComboBox);
        barIcon.add(labelsizeComboBox);
        buttons = new JButton[images.length];
        imagicons = new ImageIcon[images.length];
        for (int i = 0; i < images.length; ++i) {
            imagicons[i] = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource(images));
buttons[i] = new JButton();
buttons[i].setIcon(imagicons[i]);
buttons[i].setText(imageName[i]);
buttons[i].setToolTipText(imageName[i]);
barIcon.add(buttons[i]);
getContentPane().add(barIcon, BorderLayout.NORTH);
public static void main(String[] args) {
BarTest bar = new BarTest();
bar.setDefaultCloseOperation(BarTest.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
bar.setSize(500, 250);
bar.setVisible(true);
bar.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
thanks in advance...
Beshoy .A.W                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Answer 1

Hi
This is the final code we wrote it
    public BarTest() {
        barIcon = new JMenuBar();
        sizeComboBox = new JComboBox();
        for (int i = 6; i < 72; i += 4) {
            sizeComboBox.addItem(i);
        barIcon.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
        buttons = new JButton[images.length];
        imagicons = new ImageIcon[images.length];
        barIcon.add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(10));
        for (int i = 0; i < images.length; ++i) {
            imagicons[i] = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource(images));
buttons[i] = new JButton();
buttons[i].setIcon(imagicons[i]);
buttons[i].setText(imageName[i]);
buttons[i].setToolTipText(imageName[i]);
buttonGroup.add(buttons[i]);
barIcon.add(buttons[i]);
barIcon.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
barIcon.add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(10));
barIcon.add(sizeComboBox);
barIcon.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
getContentPane().add(barIcon, BorderLayout.NORTH);
In this link you can download the output which appear, you will see :
The button new,open,copy.....etc in the center of bar and there is a space and then the comBobox  .
I want the buttons begin from the start of the bar
and then there is very very very small space then put comBobox
thanks