GridLayout

• Unlike FlowLayout, GridLayout does not respect the preferred size of the components.  It places all of the components in a grid, and each component consumes the entire cell it is in.  There is only one component per cell.
• You can specify the number of columns and rows in a Grid.  Interestingly, Java will only use one of them, and count the components to math out the remainder.
• This example has three columns and three rows:


• Note what happens when I resize one component.


• Even though I only changed the size of jButton7, the GridLayout resized all components to the size of that button.  Thus, all components assume the size of the largest component.

Created by:  Brandan Jones January 4, 2002