Total control over component placement?

Hi,
I've been messing around for a while with applets and got to something quite decent i think, it's a paint program that mimics the program "paint" from windows, without a few of the more advanced functions.
Anyways, i wanted to make myself a small program to help me code on some other programming projects, it's a simple program where you pick a file to write to and it writes in a certain format. But i've been trying to get full control over where i place my components, and no matter what i use (setBounds, setLocation, setSize) they just seem to be drawn one after the other and placed "randomly".
I made a frame and a content panel wich i used setContentPane on, but i still can't place my elements like i want to...
Can someone point me to a site that explains the whole layout system, or just explain to me how i need to set up my window frame + panel so that i can freely move components on it?

Here is the tutorial for using LayoutManagers:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/index.html
You generally shouldn't try to set the position and size of components manually. It's usually much better to use a LayoutManager. If you really need to, here's how:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/none.html
But bear in mind what is said here:
"Although it's possible to do without a layout manager, you should use a layout manager if at all possible. A layout manager makes it easier to adjust to look-and-feel-dependent component appearances, to different font sizes, to a container's changing size, and to different locales. Layout managers also can be reused easily by other containers as well as other programs.
If a container holds components whose size isn't affected by the container's size or by font and look-and-feel and language changes, then absolute positioning might make sense. Desktop panes, which contain internal frames, are in this category. The size and position of internal frames doesn't depend directly on the desktop pane's size. The programmer determines the initial size and placement of internal frames within the desktop pane, and then the user can move or resize the frames. A layout manager is unnecessary in this situation.
Another situation in which absolute positioning might make sense is that of a custom container that performs size and position calculations that are particular to the container, and perhaps require knowledge of the container's specialized state. This is the situation with split panes. "

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