Set location of component in a container

Question

I'm looking for a way to exactly specify the location for a component in a container.
For example let's say i have some JPanel and i want to add a JButton to it at coordinates x=100, y=50.
Is this even possible?
All the lay out managers seem to prevent this because they auto-arrange the components in the container.

Answer 1

You can try to use something like this:
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Insets;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class AbsoluteLayoutDemo {
    public static void addComponentsToPane(Container pane) {
        pane.setLayout(null);
        JButton b1 = new JButton("one");
        JButton b2 = new JButton("two");
        JButton b3 = new JButton("three");
        pane.add(b1);
        pane.add(b2);
        pane.add(b3);
        Insets insets = pane.getInsets();
        Dimension size = b1.getPreferredSize();
        b1.setBounds(25 + insets.left, 5 + insets.top,
                     size.width, size.height);
        size = b2.getPreferredSize();
        b2.setBounds(55 + insets.left, 40 + insets.top,
                     size.width, size.height);
        size = b3.getPreferredSize();
        b3.setBounds(150 + insets.left, 15 + insets.top,
                     size.width + 50, size.height + 20);
     * Create the GUI and show it.  For thread safety,
     * this method should be invoked from the
     * event-dispatching thread.
    private static void createAndShowGUI() {
        //Create and set up the window.
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("AbsoluteLayoutDemo");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        //Set up the content pane.
        addComponentsToPane(frame.getContentPane());
        //Size and display the window.
        Insets insets = frame.getInsets();
        frame.setSize(300 + insets.left + insets.right,
                      125 + insets.top + insets.bottom);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Schedule a job for the event-dispatching thread:
        //creating and showing this application's GUI.
        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                createAndShowGUI();
}pane.setLayout(null) will give you what you want.