Swing window layouts

From: Chris R. (offline_at_atshawdot.ca)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:21:48 GMT

This is going to seem overly simple, i fear, and i suspect that i've
just read right past something in the literature, but here's what i'm
trying to accomplish:

I want to make a full screen window (JFrame) with two panels and a
label

It'll be arranged like this:

|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
| Label |
| |~~~~~~| |~~~~~~| |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| |~~~~~~| |~~~~~~| |
|____________________|

The thing is, the JPanels in the middle there have no size. I have
tried to get them to appear reliably in the same place - i set their BG
colour to black in order to clearly see their size - but even manually
setting their preferred size doesn't seem to make a difference at all.

Basically, how can i go about precisely and per-pixel setting up and
laying out a GUI in Swing? The built-in component resizing seems to
trip me up every time, and it's driving me bananas. Anyone willing to
help me out? 

-- 
Chris R.
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