how to use panels,list and labels
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The following picture shows a colored version of the Converter application, which is discussed in more detail in Using Models.
Colorful Converter
The Converter example uses panels in several ways:
One JPanel instance — colored red in the preceding snapshot — serves as a content pane for the application's frame. This content pane uses a top-to-bottom BoxLayout to lay out its contents, and an empty border to put 5 pixels of space around them. See Using Top-Level Containers for information about content panes.
Two instances of a custom JPanel subclass named ConversionPanel — colored cyan — are used to contain components and coordinate communication between components. These ConversionPanel panels also have titled borders, which describe their contents and enclose the contents with a line. Each ConversionPanel panel uses a left-to-right BoxLayout object to lay out its contents.
In each ConversionPanel, a JPanel instance — colored magenta — is used to ensure the proper size and position of the combo box. Each of these JPanel instances uses a top-to-bottom BoxLayout object (helped by an invisible space-filling component) to lay out the combo box.
In each ConversionPanel, an instance of an unnamed JPanel subclass — colored blue — groups two components (a text field and a slider) and restricts their size. Each of these JPanel instances uses a top-to-bottom BoxLayout object to lay out its contents.
Here is what the Converter application normally looks like.
Normal Converter
As the Converter example demonstrates, panels are useful for grouping components, simplifying component layout, and putting borders around groups of components. The rest of this section gives hints on grouping and laying out components. For information about using borders, see How to Use Borders.
Setting the Layout Manager
Like other containers, a panel uses a layout manager to position and size its components. By default, a panel's layout manager is an instance of FlowLayout, which places the panel's contents in a row. You can easily make a panel use any other layout manager by invoking the setLayout method or by specifying a layout manager when creating the panel. The latter approach is preferable for performance reasons, since it avoids the unnecessary creation of a FlowLayout object.
Here is an example of how to set the layout manager when creating the panel.
JPanel p = new JPanel(new BorderLayout()); //PREFERRED!
This approach does not work with BoxLayout, since the BoxLayout constructor requires a pre-existing container. Here is an example that uses BoxLayout.
JPanel p = new JPanel();
p.setLayout(new BoxLayout(p, BoxLayout.PAGE_AXIS));
Adding Components
When you add components to a panel, you use the add method. Exactly which arguments you specify to the add method depend on which layout manager the panel uses. When the layout manager is FlowLayout, BoxLayout, GridLayout, or SpringLayout, you will typically use the one-argument add method, like this:
aFlowPanel.add(aComponent);
aFlowPanel.add(anotherComponent);
When the layout manager is BorderLayout, you need to provide an argument specifying the added component's position within the panel. For example:
aBorderPanel.add(aComponent, BorderLayout.CENTER);
aBorderPanel.add(anotherComponent, BorderLayout.PAGE_END);
With GridBagLayout you can use either add method, but you must somehow specify grid bag constraints for each component.
For information about choosing and using the standard layout managers, see Using Layout Managers.
The Panel API
The API in the JPanel class itself is minimal. The methods you are most likely to invoke on a JPanel object are those it inherits from its superclasses — JComponent, Container, and Component. The following tables list the API you are most likely to use, with the exception of methods related to borders and layout hints. For more information about the API that all JComponent objects can use, see The JComponent Class.
Creating a JPanel
Managing a Container's Components
Setting or Getting the Layout Manager
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