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Simple program which demonstrates Swing/AWT Grid layout: This post is intended to the beginners of swing/awt. This below program creates a JFrame with 2 labels, 2 textfields and 2 buttons. import java.awt.GridLayout; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JPasswordField; import javax.swing.JTextField; /**  * @author Nagasharath Kopalle  *  * Simple program to demontrate Gridlayout  *  */ public class GridLayoutDemo extends JFrame { private JLabel labelName = null; private JTextField textFieldName = null; private JLabel labelPassword = null; private JPasswordField passwordFieldPassword = null; private JButton buttonSubmit = null; private JButton buttonCancel = null; /** * */ public GridLayoutDemo() { initComponents(); } /** * instantiates components and adds properties. */ void initComponents() { this.setTitle("Grid Layout Dem...

Swing toolkit comes with few standard Layout Managers where none of them serves the need of arranging components in a way that usually developers require. some of them does, but it takes lot of coding time to achieve it. GridBagLayout is the most flexible layout manager available in swing toolkit but their are so many variables that developer has to look after. DesignGridLayout can be a useful LayoutManager to arrange components in less time with very small snippet of code and can still get proper alignment. Layouting with DesignGridLayout is as easy as coding with various GUI Builder tools available in varoius IDEs. Simple program which demonstrates DesignGridLayout: import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.JSeparator; import javax.swing.JTextField; import javax.swing.SwingUtilities; import javax.swing.UIManager; import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException; import net.java.dev.designgr...