Tag: gridbaglayout

I am trying to create a layout with GridBagLayout but am having trouble getting the spaces in between the JButton controls to be equal. In the first row, there are 5 buttons that have no space in between. The second and third row should have 4 buttons which are smaller which spaces in between. The workaround I tried was to

I have this code: It creates: But I need the text field to always span 2 columns and everything to be left aligned: How do I do that? Answer Needs to be: Result: Edit As an aside. ‘Spanning two cells’ seems an entirely arbitrary way of sizing a text field. Better to specify a number of columns (roughly translates to