School Project - Help with JTabbedPane Layout/Formatting of one of the Tabs

[CarlosSpicyWeiner]

I am new to JAVA, but long time programmer C#, Basic, Pascal.

Anyway, I am working on a class project with 8 tabs and each tab does something different. The one I am having problems with is a Calculator/Converter of sorts.
It is supposed to look like this one. I am finding the programming part to be fairly simple, just figuring out the layout is very daunting.

I think I need to add another panel or figure out how to split the one I have into north and south. There are eventually going to be a few buttons on the bottom.



However instead it looks like this:



I know about GridLayout an tried to do it as 2,5 (two rows, 5 columns):



My TabbedPane looks like

setlCalc(new LengthCalc());
        jp4.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,5));
        jp4.add(getlCalc().getLblMm());
        jp4.add(getlCalc().getLblMeters());
        jp4.add(getlCalc().getLblYards());
        jp4.add(getlCalc().getLblFeet());
        jp4.add(getlCalc().getLblInches());
        jp4.add(getlCalc().getMm());
        jp4.add(getlCalc().getMeters());
        jp4.add(getlCalc().getYards());
        jp4.add(getlCalc().getFeet());
        jp4.add(getlCalc().getInches());

My lenthCalc file:

public class LengthCalc {
	private JTextField mm = new JTextField(5), meters = new JTextField(5), yards = new JTextField(5), feet = new JTextField(5), inches = new JTextField(5);
	private JButton convertLength, exitButton;
	private JLabel lblMm = new JLabel ("Millimeters"), lblMeters = new JLabel ("Meters"), lblYards = new JLabel ("Yards"), lblFeet = new JLabel ("Feet"), lblInches = new JLabel ("Inches") ;
	
	public LengthCalc(){
	
		
		
		
	}

I can attach the complete code if it helps.

[DarrylBurke]

Moved from New to Java.

This Tutorial Lesson: Laying Out Components Within a Container (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing) should help you to pick a suitable layout. Don't lose sight of the fact that you can nest containers, each with their own layout manager, in an outer container that agan, has its own layout manager.

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