Vertical box and positioning

[aborgeld]

I add buttons, labels and a combobox to a panel.
I use a vertical box to get it vertical beneath eachother because its a gamepanel with a buttonpanel on the right side.

The layout is ok, but when i add my combobox the layout changes like you can see on the image.

An extra vertical box for the combobox doesn't help because it puts the combobox on the right side of the labels.
Not under them.

this is the code:

        verticalBox.add(restartButton);
        verticalBox.add(Box.createVerticalStrut(10));
        verticalBox.add(hoofdMenuButton);
        verticalBox.add(Box.createVerticalStrut(10));
        verticalBox.add(naamLabel);
        verticalBox.add(naamInvoerLabel);
        verticalBox.add(Box.createVerticalStrut(10));
        verticalBox.add(levelLabel);
        verticalBox.add(levelInvoerLabel);
        verticalBox.add(Box.createVerticalStrut(10));
        verticalBox.add(playgroundLabel);
        verticalBox.add(playgroundInvoerLabel);
        verticalBox.add(Box.createVerticalStrut(20));
        verticalBox.add(playgroundComboBox);

[sunde887]

I don't see this picture you refer to.

[aborgeld]

Here is the attachment. You can see whats going wrong with the layout.
A borderlayout within the add doesn't work. I can't seem to get them straight under eachother.

[sunde887]

How exactly do you want it to look? Labels on the left side with buttons on right?

If that's what you want you can use a horizontal box for each label button pair? Then add that horizontal box to the vertical box. If thats not what you are looking for, please help me understand.

[aborgeld]

I set the widt and height with the following code:

Dimension buttonSize = new Dimension(100, 20);
Dimension comboBoxSize = new Dimension(100, 20);

[aborgeld]

No, like it is now, only straight left beneath eachother.
So on the postion where the combobox begins.

[aborgeld]

When i comment out, adding the combobox you get a good look of how i want it to be.

[camickr]

The X alignment of each components needs to be the same.

See How to Use BoxLayout (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Laying Out Components Within a Container)

[aborgeld]

Thanks for the reply, i know the documentation, but the hint helped me a lot.

[aborgeld]

The site was great, it worked and the samples are very good to!