jtabbedpane is a pain in the butt; how do I place labels and move them around?

[Dick Hammer]

I am pretty new to Eclipse windows builder and Java and I created these tabs with Labels and buttons, but I am not able to move them around? Anyone know why not? If I put a label in a jframe, and I select absolute coordinates, I am able to move them as I wish, but not when I put them in in a tabbed pane? Also wheneever I add another label or button, it creates another pane!

public class appWindow {

	private JFrame frame;
	private JLabel lblLabel2;

	/**
	 * Launch the application.
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
			public void run() {
				try {
					appWindow window = new appWindow();
					window.frame.setVisible(true);
				} catch (Exception e) {
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			}
		});
	}

	/**
	 * Create the application.
	 */
	public appWindow() {
		initialize();
	}

	/**
	 * Initialize the contents of the frame.
	 */
	private void initialize() {
		frame = new JFrame();
		frame.setBounds(100, 100, 798, 670);
		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		frame.getContentPane().setLayout(new GridLayout(0, 1, 0, 0));
		
		JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane(JTabbedPane.TOP);
		
		JLabel lblLabel1 = new JLabel("Label1");
		tabbedPane.addTab("New tab", null, lblLabel1, null);
		
		lblLabel2 = new JLabel("LABEL2");
		tabbedPane.addTab("New tab", null, lblLabel2, null);
		frame.getContentPane().add(tabbedPane);
		
		JButton btnButton = new JButton("button1");
		tabbedPane.addTab("New tab", null, btnButton, null);
	}
}

[Paul Clapham]

The normal thing to do would be to add JPanel objects to your JTabbedPane. Then you can put whatever you like into those JPanels in whatever layout you like.

If you're asking how to do that in your window builder, sorry, I don't know. I could move the question to the forum about IDEs if you think that would be a better place for a question about an IDE feature.

[Dick Hammer]

No need to move it. You answered the question for me. Thank you!