All Layout

1. Flow Layout:

•  It is default layout manager.
•  Components are laid out from the upper left corner,left to right and top to bottom.
• When no more components fit on a line, the next one appears on a new line.

                  • FlowLayout()

                  • FlowLayout(int align)

                  • FlowLayout(int align,int h gap,int v gap)

•  Here align is the alignment left, right and center.
•  H gap is the horizonatal distance and v gap is the vertical distance.

2.Border Layout:

•  This class implements a common layout style for top-level windows.
•  It has four narrow, fixed width components at the edges and one large area in the center.
• The four side are referred as north, south, east and west.

•  The middle area is called the center.

                  • BorderLayout()

                 • BorderLayout(int horz,int vert)

•  The horz and vert specify the horizontal and vertical distance between the components.

3.Card Layout:

• The cardlayout has some special capabilities that other layout do not have.
•  It creates layout like playing cards.
•  Assume that more that one card on one another so that only top card is visible at a time.
•  But you can shuffle the cards to see other cards.
•  This can be useful for user interface with optional components that can be dynamically enabled and disabled upon user input.

                    • CardLayout()

                    • CardLayout(int horz,int vert)

• The horz and vert specify the horizontal and vertical distance between the components.

4.Grid Layout:

•  This class automatically arranges component in a grid.
•  All components are created with equal size.

                  • GridLayout()

                  • GridLayout(int numRows,int numColumns)

                  • GridLayout(int numRows,int numColumns,int horz,int vert)

•  The first constructor is default constructor which will create only one column grid.
•  Here, rows and columns specify the number of row and columns of the grid.
•  The horz and vert specify the horizontal and vertical distance between the components.

5.GridBag Layout:

• It is very flexible layout manager.
•  It is an extension of GridLayout.
•  In GridLayout all the cells have same height and width which is not necessary in the GridBagLayout.
•  This can be done by specifying constraint.
• To specify constraint you have to create an object of GridBagConstraitns.

                    • GridBagLayout()

                    • GridBagConstraint()

•  The GridBagConstraint are as follow:

             -> gridx and gridy

• gridx specifies the horizontal position and the gridy specifies the vertical position of the component.