Resizing windows and components

Question

Hi, i've been reading the swing tutorial on springLayout but i still haven't figured out how to do it.
Basically I want a jTable in a jScrollPane to resize itself whenever i resize the window. The window would also have other buttons, which positions I want to stay relatively constant to the borders (ex: always in the middle, or always to the left, etc. etc.), however i do not want to resize them. any ideas?
Thnx
Rickszyr

Answer 1

Don't use SpringLayout. Assuming what you stated is all you want in the window, my suggestion is to do the following:
1. The main window's content pane uses BorderLayout. Stick the JScrollPane containing the JTable in BorderLayout.CENTER.
2. Create a second JPanel that will contain your buttons. Add this JPanel to your content pane wherever you want (e.g. BorderLayout.RIGHT if you want it to the right of the JTable, BorderLayout.SOUTH if you want them below, etc.). The LayoutManager you use for this second JPanel depends on how you want the buttons arranged.
Basically, don't be afraid to nest JPanels with different LayoutManagers to achieve the layout you want. You'd be amazed with how much you can accomplish with BorderLayout and GridLayout, and sometimes a little bit of BoxLayout.