Can you have multiple layouts using swing?

[fresh83]

Might be a stupid question ill keep reading but, if anyone wants to elborate some tips to learning gui and swing ,a student is listening .

my q poped up when i came across this page.
A Visual Guide to Layout Managers (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Laying Out Components Within a Container)

[JosAH]

Might be a stupid question ill keep reading but, if anyone wants to elborate some tips to learning gui and swing ,a student is listening .

my q poped up when i came across this page.
A Visual Guide to Layout Managers (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Laying Out Components Within a Container)

Your question is in the topic title? If so, no, a component can only have one LayoutManager at the same time; this is not really a restriction because all components are containers as well, so each component can have more than one (other) component as its children and each child can have its own LayoutManager again. A JPanel is the ideal candidate for a child component.

Before you build up your components like this (and everybody does this) draw your design on a piece of paper and define which component carries what other components and uses which LayoutManager. It pays back if you do that before you start banging your keyboard.

kind regards,

Jos

[fresh83]

i have what i want to do planned out , in another thread right now "combining these 2 projects" . Right now im just playing with adding components . Im looking over the dif layouts and i like the border layout for the project im working on and but, idk if you add the tabs to the layout or the layout to the tabs .