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GridLayout Help

Help is available for each task, or you can go straight to the GridLayout source code to see a solution.

Task 1

Create a Panel managed by a GridLayout.


You need to create a subclass of Applet to hold your GridLayout. You can call it GridLayoutTest. In this class, create and instance of GridLayout and add it to the container. You create a subclass by using the keyword extends. In this case, you want to say: 


import java.awt.*;

public class GridLayoutTest extends java.applet.Applet {

    public void init() {
        setLayout(new GriderLayout(3,2));
    }
}

Note the import statement because you are going to be using a number of classes from the AWT later on.

Task 2

 Add five Button in each of the five layout positions.


First, you need to create each Buttons using the new operator. To add each Button to the Applet you must use the add() method. GridLayout takes only one argument to the add() method, which is the component reference to be added. 


    public void init() {
        setLayout(new BorderLayout());

        Button button1 = new Button("First");
        add(button1);

        Button button2 = new Button("Second");
        add(button2);

        Button button3 = new Button("Third");
        add(button3);

        Button button4 = new Button("Fourth");
        add(button4);

        Button button5 = new Button("Fifth");
        add(button5);
    }