Is there something like a GroupBox in Swings ?!!

[Meghna ks]

Hi,
Is there something like a GroupBox in Swings ?!!I mean something like a Panel, but not panel, to which a header could be added and some swing components like Buttons., Labels can be grouped together. It should look something like this ..
|-------I'm the Header------------------|
| |
| Label TextField |
| Label TextField |
| |
| Button |
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Please let me know if you guys can find something like this
Thanks
Meghna

[Michael Hildner]

You can set borders on your JComponents, for example:

etched = BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder();
border = BorderFactory.createTitledBorder(etched, "Status");
statusBoxPanel.setBorder(border);

Check out the tutorial at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/border.html

[Meghna ks]

Hi Michael
Thanks for the reply, but the idea is not to use the Panel at all, but to use something different to give the look and feel of the groupbox like that we use in VB. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks
Meghna

[Michael Hildner]

It's been a while since I did a GUI in VB, I think this would be the preferred way in Java.
You text fields and buttons are going to be contained within a panel anyway, right? Plus, it makes logical sense to have groupings in a JPanel, then you can put that panel anywhere you want.
If I remember correctly, in VB you just drag a border like this. I guess you could figure out how to draw one manually, doesn't sound like fun.