Layer customizing

[atrodeyo]

could anyone help me with customizing the position of those 3 buttons. how do I move those buttons anywhere I want to inside the tabs?

[wsaryada]

What do you mean by "how to move those buttons anywhere inside the tabs?" Do you want the users to be able to move those buttons? Or do you want to use another layout manager for your GUI so you can control where you want to place those buttons?

[atrodeyo]

I want to custom design but I want to have full control with positioning the buttons. I tried with few layouts but it does not give me full control. My goal is to read the x, y position from a text file and then place buttons or images according to that. Can you help me with that please?

[wsaryada]

You can do it with something call as absolute positioning in swing application. Take a look at the following documentation Doing Without a Layout Manager (Absolute Positioning) (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Laying Out Components Within a Container)

[DarrylBurke]

Absolute positioning is almost always a bad choice, unless this is a toy program and will run on only on the computer it's built on.

Java has a variety of layout managers, and layouts can be nested to get just about any positioning you want.
Lesson: Laying Out Components Within a Container (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing)

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