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swing layouts & resizing

I have a JDialog. The layout used by this JDialog is SpringLayout. I have two JPanels within this JDialog. I would like both of these panels to resize when I resize the JDialog. How can I do this?

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Actually, I've adjusted my layout selection a bit. I now have a GridBagLayout with a bunch of components, and then at the bottom I have a JPanel w/ some buttons. When I resize horizontally, everything seems to respond as I want it to. However, when I resize vertically, nothing that I want to resize actually resizes. I have the fill set to BOTH on the constraints, though...

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How can I do this with a GridBagLayout though? I know there must be some way. I want the JLabels to stay the same size, but the JTextFields to increase their vertical size as the user resizes the form.

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use a BorderLayout for that

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Well, I would like to use a GridBagLayout because I want to control the vertical and horizontal spacing between some of the components.

Mick Barry

can't help you sorry, i never use it. find it far too cryptic and never found a layout that couldn't be done with other managers.

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