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Thread: Card Game help....

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    Default Card Game help....

    Im back again....

    The: topCards.setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 0)); didnt make the buttons smaller...it stayed the same...

    So, I tryed using a JPanel and flowlayout inside the border layout to make the buttons smaller... and it worked

    But, ive run into another problem...for the card game i want three buttons at the top(north position) and three and the bottom(south position).
    I wrote 3 buttons for each area, with coordinates, but only 1 button shows in each area...

    I looked up BoxLayouts,GridLayouts, CardsLayouts, gridLayouts...ects

    But im still confused on how to make it work...
    Can someone point me towards the right direction...
    OR give me example...

    CODE HERE:________________________________

    import java.awt.BorderLayout;
    import java.awt.FlowLayout;
    import java.awt.GridLayout;
    import java.awt.LayoutManager;

    import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
    import javax.swing.Icon;
    import javax.swing.JButton;
    import javax.swing.JFrame;
    import javax.swing.JPanel;


    public class Layout extends JFrame{

    public static void main(String[] args) {

    JFrame frame = new JFrame("UNO"); // sets JFrame to say UNO

    frame.setSize(850, 400); // set width and height of frame

    frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null); // center it in middle
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOS E);

    LayoutManager border = new BorderLayout(1, 1); // border layout
    frame.setLayout(border);

    //JButton button = new JButton("TOP Cards");

    //__TOp Cards________________________//
    JPanel topCard1 = new JPanel(); // area for card 1
    topCard1.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT,620,3));
    topCard1.add(new JButton(" Card1 "));
    frame.add(topCard1, BorderLayout.NORTH); // should i add something here to be able to add mutiple buttons ??

    JPanel topCard2 = new JPanel(); // Area for card 2
    topCard2.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT,340,3));
    topCard2.add(new JButton(" Card2 "));
    frame.add(topCard2, BorderLayout.NORTH);

    JPanel topCard3 = new JPanel();
    topCard3.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT,220,3)); // Area for card 3
    topCard3.add(new JButton(" Card3 "));
    frame.add(topCard3, BorderLayout.NORTH);



    //___Bottom Cards________________________________//

    //JButton button2 = new JButton("Bottom Cards");
    JPanel bottomCard1 = new JPanel();
    bottomCard1.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT,620,3)); // hgap(horizontal), vgap(vertical) used a flowlayout for button
    bottomCard1.add(new JButton(" Card 1 "));
    frame.add(bottomCard1, BorderLayout.SOUTH);



    JPanel bottomCard2 = new JPanel();
    bottomCard2.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT,340,3));
    //bottomCards2.setLayout(new BoxLayout(bottomCards2, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS)); // box layout
    bottomCard2.add(new JButton(" Card 2 "));
    frame.add(bottomCard2 ,BorderLayout.SOUTH);

    JPanel bottomCard3 = new JPanel();
    bottomCard3.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT,220,3));
    bottomCard3.add(new JButton(" Card 3 "));
    frame.add(bottomCard3, BorderLayout.SOUTH);


    //JPanel content = new JPanel();
    //content.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
    //content.add(new JButton());
    //content.add(new JButton("2"));
    //content.add(new JButton("This is button three"));
    //content.add(new JButton("four"));
    //frame.add(bottomCards, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    // for each button

    frame.setVisible(true); //
    }
    }


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    Default Re: Card Game help....

    You can stack layouts, which means you can put a group of buttons in a JPanel with a BoxLayout, then add that JPanel to the north position of another JPanel that has a BorderLayout.
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