11.7 Adding controls to a Frame

GUI controls are added to a container using the add() method. The parameters that the add() method accepts depends on the kind of layout manager that the container has.

The standard AWT provides several GUI controls. The following is a partial list:

Panel - A panel control can contain other controls.
Button - A button control
Label - A text label control
TextField - An edit box control
TextArea - A multi-lined edit box control
CheckBox - A check box control
ListBox - A List box control

The following code creates several controls and adds them to a container that has a BorderLayout manager:

setLayout( new BorderLayout() );
add("North", new Button("North Button") );
add("South", new Button("South Button") );
add("East", new Button("East Button") );
add("West", new Button("West Button") );
add("Center", new TextArea() );