Which LayoutManager to use for this purpose.

Question

I am trying to set a panel inside JTableColumn. The panel consists of JTextField and a Button. The Button is very small in size and should appear in the SouthEast portion of the panel. The remaining space should be used up by JTextField. Which LayoutManager will help me achieve this. Here is a diagram of the layout of panel that I want.
(----) stands for JTextField area and (||||) stands for the JButton.
------------------------|||||||||
-------------------------------Please Note that the width of Panel is not known as it depends on the size of table column.
regards,
nirvan.

Answer 1

Guys,
Thanks for the replies. I achieve what I wanted using BorderLayout. Here is the program demonstrating what I was looking for. It's an SSCCE. The problem is solved.
package com.ns;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.WindowConstants;
public class PropertySheetLayout extends javax.swing.JFrame {
    // Variables declaration - do not modify
    private JPanel dummyPanel;
    private JTextField inputText;
    private JButton lookUpButton;
    private JPanel outerPanel;
    // End of variables declaration
    public PropertySheetLayout() {
        initComponents();
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">
    private void initComponents() {
        outerPanel = new JPanel();
        inputText = new JTextField();
        dummyPanel = new JPanel();
        lookUpButton = new JButton();
        setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        outerPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder());
        outerPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(150, 75));
        outerPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        inputText.setBorder(null);
        inputText.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 20));
        outerPanel.add(inputText, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        dummyPanel.setBackground(Color.white);
        dummyPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(25, 75));
        dummyPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        lookUpButton.setText("jButton1");
        lookUpButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(25, 25));
        lookUpButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
                lookUpButtonActionPerformed(evt);
        dummyPanel.add(lookUpButton, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
        outerPanel.add(dummyPanel, BorderLayout.EAST);
        getContentPane().add(outerPanel);
        Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
        setBounds((screenSize.width-408)/2, (screenSize.height-334)/2, 408, 334);
    }// </editor-fold>
    private void lookUpButtonActionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
        inputText.setText(JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter your Name"));
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                new PropertySheetLayout().setVisible(true);
}regards,
nirvan.