Chapter 11. Specialty Panes and Layout Managers
With
all the spiffy Swing components out there, you might expect to see a
few new layout managers to help place them, and you
wouldn't be disappointed. The Swing package includes
several layout managers. However, most of these
managers are designed for specific
containers—JScrollPane has its own
ScrollPaneLayout manager, for example. The Swing
package also includes several new convenience containers that handle
things such as
scrolling and
tabs. (We'll take a close look at these containers
and their associated layout managers in this chapter.) Figure 11-1 shows a class diagram of
Swing's specialty panes and their layout managers.
The OverlayLayout and
SpringLayout general layout managers can be used
with any containers. We tackle them separately at the end of this
chapter. (SpringLayout was added in SDK 1.4.)
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