JInternalFrame design question

[John Jai]

Hi,

I need to build a JInternalFrame with a MenuBar, ToolBar, Split Pane and a Tabbed Pane at the bottom. Should i go for GroupLayout or GridBag layout. I knew a bit of GroupLayout when i previously used NetBeans to draw a Swing screen and it generated the code for me. But i am new to GridBag. And NetBeans is some what difficult to draw complex UI.

[Darryl Burke]

Use whichever layout suits the need. And nothing prevents you from nesting JPanels each with its own layout, in a single GUI.

Have you gone through this tutorial?

[John Jai]

The GroupLayout description is good in the tutorial. i will try learn it and code instead of using netbeans. Thanks!