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Basically I have created a JPanel with one JToolBar at the top (BorderLayout.NORTH), then I made a sidebar on the right(BorderLayout.EAST). Although when I add buttons to said sidebar, they are arranged horizontally(see attached, ignore the angry birds theme :p), when i need them to display vertically. I'm no expert with Swing, as you can probably tell..
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Recommended reading: How to Use Tool Bars (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Using Swing Components)
Apologies, messing around with GridLayout, I managed to fix my problem. Was a simple one line:
toolbar2.setLayout(new GridLayout(3,1));