The Cosmetics of a JPanel

Question

Hey guys,
I have a quiz program that consists of a text area to show prompts, two text fields for input, a submit button, as well as a reset button. The problem is I have no idea how to set their locations. They have a standard location I can control with the order of implementation, but I would like to have more control on exactly where the components are and I would also like to anchor them (which I do not foresee being as difficult as the coordinates). I want to do this because the window happens to be re-sized, all the components are moving and I don't want that. Any help on achieving such a feet would be greatly appreciated. I'll attach my code. Thanks in advance.
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
public class SonnetTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
         JFrame frame = new JFrame();
         //Creates a new PoemGenerator object
         final PoemGenerator vanorden = new PoemGenerator();
         //Sets the standard width of the fields
         final int FIELD_WIDTH = 20;
         //Initializes the input fields for author and title
         final JTextField authorField = new JTextField(FIELD_WIDTH);
         final JTextField titleField = new JTextField(FIELD_WIDTH);
         //Labels the input fields
         final JLabel titleLabel = new JLabel("Title");
         final JLabel authorLabel = new JLabel("Author");
         //Initializes the display area
         final JTextArea display = new JTextArea();
         display.setText(vanorden.verse);
         display.setEditable (false);
          //Initializes the submit and new poem buttons
         JButton submitButton = new JButton("Submit");
         JButton newPoemButton = new JButton("New Poem");
         //Constructs the panel      
         JPanel panel = new JPanel();
         panel.add(display);
         panel.add(authorLabel);
         panel.add(authorField);
         panel.add(titleLabel);
         panel.add(titleField);
         panel.add(submitButton);
         panel.add(newPoemButton);
         frame.add(panel);
         //Creates a listener to be used when the submit button is pressed
         class CheckAnswerListener implements ActionListener{
              public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event){
                   String authorGuess = authorField.getText();
                   //Compares the input with the correct (ignoring case)
                   if(authorGuess.compareToIgnoreCase(vanorden.Poet) == 0){
                        display.setText("Correct!");
                   else{
                        display.setText("Incorrect, the poet's name is " + vanorden.Poet + ".");
         ActionListener listener = new CheckAnswerListener();
         submitButton.addActionListener(listener);
         //Creates a listener to be used when the new poem button is pressed
         class NewPoemListener implements ActionListener{
              public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event){
                   PoemGenerator vanorden = new PoemGenerator();
                   display.setText(vanorden.verse);     
         ActionListener listener2 = new NewPoemListener();
         newPoemButton.addActionListener(listener2);
         //Sets the panel's size
         frame.setSize(FRAME_WIDTH, FRAME_HEIGHT);
         frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
         frame.setVisible(true);
    //Sets the variables to be used as dimensions for the window
    private static final int FRAME_WIDTH = 250;  //Good width for input fields
    private static final int FRAME_HEIGHT = 200;
}

Answer 1

Learn about LayoutManagers: [http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/index.html]
If you don't want a frame to be resizable:
frame.setResizable(false);ps: in future, post Swing questions to the [Swing forum|http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=57] .