Resizing buttons

Question

Hi all,
I have a text area with a scroll bar.
I want to put two buttons to the right of it. Each button being half the height of the text box so that it makes a nice looking area. Here is my code so far but i can't seem to get the boxes to change size at all. Any help or pointers to the right area in the JDK would be much appreciated.
Cheers
DRB2k2
     Box MainBox        = Box.createVerticalBox();     // Box to hold all the database items
     MainBox.setBorder(new TitledBorder (new EtchedBorder(), "Enter known data"));
     Box TextAndButtons = Box.createHorizontalBox();     // Box to hold text area and buttons
     Box Buttons        = Box.createVerticalBox();     // Box to hold Buttons
     JTextArea InputData = new JTextArea("Enter your known data here");
     InputData.setFont(new Font("Courier", Font.PLAIN, 16));
     InputData.setLineWrap(false);
     InputData.setWrapStyleWord(false);
     JScrollPane InputDataScroll = new JScrollPane(InputData);
     InputDataScroll.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED);
     InputDataScroll.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED);
     InputDataScroll.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(250,100));
     TextAndButtons.add(InputDataScroll);
     MakeDataBase = new JButton("Create Database");
     MakeDataBase.setToolTipText("Press here to format your data");
     MakeDataBase.setActionCommand("Submit");
     MakeDataBase.addActionListener(this);
     ClearFields  = new JButton("Clear Data");
     ClearFields.setToolTipText("Press here to clear the data boxes");
     ClearFields.setActionCommand("Clear");
     ClearFields.addActionListener(this);
     ClearFields.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(250,100));
     Buttons.add(MakeDataBase);
     Buttons.add(ClearFields);
     TextAndButtons.add(Buttons);
     Box LoadBox = Box.createHorizontalBox();
     UpLoadData  = new JTextArea("...or enter a file location here");
     UpLoadData.setFont(new Font("Courier", Font.PLAIN, 10));
     UpLoadData.setLineWrap(false);
     UpLoadData.setWrapStyleWord(false);
     LoadDataBase = new JButton("Load");
     LoadDataBase.setToolTipText("Press here once you have entered a file location");
     LoadDataBase.setActionCommand("Load");
     LoadDataBase.addActionListener(this);
     LoadBox.add(UpLoadData);
     LoadBox.add(LoadDataBase);
     MainBox.add(TextAndButtons);
     MainBox.add(LoadBox);In case you can't see why i'm using boxes below is a picture of how I wanted it to look. (GRidbag didn't seem to work either!!)
|__________________________________
| JTextArea InputData|JButton MakeDB|
|                    |--------------|
|                    |JButton Clear |
|------------------------------------
|------------------------------------
|JTextArea InputData |JButton Load  |
|------------------------------------
|
|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------thanks

Answer 1

I'm too smart or too dumb to use GridBag - it's way too complicated. Some combination of Grid and BorderLayout generally makes these things work.
For yours, I'd start with two Panels, one in the Center and one in the South of a BorderLayout. Then use another BorderLayout for the Center panel. Drop the text into that one in the Center, and put the two buttons on a Panel in the East, in a 1x2 grid.
Got the idea?