GridBagLayout and "total control"

[brownie124]

Hi,

Being new to Java and coming from doing Windows API development where you do truly have total control over placement of items, I am finding control/component placement extremely challenging in Java.

If I have a window that is 400 x 200 and I want to place a check box or any other control for that matter at x=40, y=40, how would I do that?! Even with the GridBagLayout manager I cannot do it. If I have a window with one item, I can put it in the very center, north, west, east, or south, but how dow I specifically place it at particular coordinates?

Because of some development constraints, I cannot use Swing.

Thanks,
- Michael

 

[brownie124]

My bad. I have done some more research and found that you do not have to use a layout manager. If you don't, you truly do have control but give up some platform indepenence.