Working with Components in a Container

You can perform the following tasks on the container you created:

• Add a component

• Set component properties

• Change the layout for a container 

• Modify the layout constraints 

• Select components in your project  

• Size and move components 

• Group components 

• Change the stack order of components 

• Cut, copy, paste, and delete components

For more information on Swing Components, go to this Sun Microsystems web page:

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/component_gallery/

Related topics

About Swing JavaBeans Components
About Component Properties in the Inspector
Creating Containers

Prototyping the UI with Layout Properties
Working with Layout Managers

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