Help making a grid inside of a JPanel

I thought the logical way to do this was with a GridLayout. However I have found that to not be the case. I need to make a grid of perfect squares that is also a square (10 x 10) or (50 x 50). When I use GridLayout, it decides to make all of my buttons rectangles. Is there a better way to do this?

Code:

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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;

public class buttonGrid extends JFrame
{
        private JPanel buttonPanel, leftPanel, rightPanel, bottomPanel;
        private JScrollPane buttonScroll, leftScroll, rightScroll, bottomScroll;
       
        public buttonGrid()
        {
                super("GridLayout Sucks");
                this.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
                this.setSize(400, 400);
               
                leftPanel = new JPanel();
                leftPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(10, 1, 1, 1));
               
                for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
                {
                        JButton button = new JButton("L" + i);
                        leftPanel.add(button, i);
                }
               
                leftScroll = new JScrollPane(leftPanel);
                leftScroll.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
               
                rightPanel = new JPanel();
                rightPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(10, 1, 1, 1));
               
                for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
                {
                        JButton button = new JButton("R" + i);
                        rightPanel.add(button, i);
                }
               
                rightScroll = new JScrollPane(rightPanel);
                rightScroll.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
               
                buttonPanel = new JPanel();
                buttonPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(30, 30, 1, 1));
               
                for (int i = 0; i < 30; i++)
                {
                        for (int j = 0; j < 30; j++)
                        {
                                JButton button = new JButton(j + "," + i);
                                buttonPanel.add(button);
                        }
                }
               
                buttonScroll = new JScrollPane(buttonPanel);
                buttonScroll.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
                buttonScroll.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
               
                this.add(buttonScroll, BorderLayout.CENTER);
                this.add(rightScroll, BorderLayout.EAST);
                this.add(leftScroll, BorderLayout.WEST);
                this.setVisible(true);
        }
       
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
                new buttonGrid();
        }
}

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Thanks for reading my post. I know its not the best code. I actually have an entire project and this is just an aspect of the project that I am trying to get right.

maybe you could try setPreferredSize(x,x) on the buttons?

It's generally better practice to override getPreferredSize. This prevents client code from changing the desired behavior with another call to getPreferredSize.

Typed here, may have typos or other errors...

Code:

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public class SquareButton extends JButton {

  public SquareButton(String text) {
    super(text);
  }

  // other constructors as desired

  public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
    Dimension d = super.getPreferredSize();
    if (d.width > d.height) {
      d.height = d.width;
    } else {
      d.width = d.height;
    }
    return d;
  }
}

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db

Thanks everyone that totally worked!! :)