Top alignment for FlowLayout

Question

I'm using a FlowLayout JPanel. The panel looks ugly when it's children components height are different. I'm looking for a solution to make them top-align (similar to valign="top" with table cell in HTML). Sorry for my bad English and hope someone can come up with a brilliant idea.

Thank you

Answer 1

Someone else has wished for this, in the form of a bug-report (which also lists a workaround).

Have a look at

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4295966

Answer 2

You should be able to use a BoxLayout. It supports vertical alignment. The only problem is you need to manually insert horizontal strut components.

Or you could try using the Relative Layout. In your case you would use:

RelativeLayout rl = new RelativeLayout(RelativeLayout.X_AXIS, 5);
rl.setBorderGap(5);
rl.setAlignment(RelativeLayout.LEADING);
JPanel panel = new JPanel( rl );
panel.add(...);