Mixed alignment with Java Swing's GroupLayout

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Published on 2010-04-19T19:51:35Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 19:53 UTC
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I'm trying to build a GUI window in my application. What I'm trying to do is have a window, with a few buttons at the top, and a large text area. Something like this:

+--------------------------------------------------+
| [button1] [button2]                    [button3] |
| +----------------------------------------------+ |
| | text area                                    | |
| |                                              | |
| |                                              | |
| |                                              | |
| +----------------------------------------------+ |
+--------------------------------------------------+

I'm almost there, using GroupLayout:

  layout.setHorizontalGroup(
    layout.createParallelGroup()
      .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
        .addComponent(button1)
        .addComponent(button2))
        .addComponent(closeWindow))
      .addComponent(textarea1)
  );

  layout.setVerticalGroup(
    layout.createSequentialGroup()
      .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup()
        .addComponent(button1)
        .addComponent(button2)
        .addComponent(button3))
      .addComponent(textarea)
  );

The problem is that this ends up with button3 aligned to the left, with the other two. I can't seem to figure out how I can specify the alignment on just that one button. I can do GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING on the entire button bar, but that hits all 3 buttons, which is also not quite right.

So what's the correct approach? Since the alignment only applies for Parallel Groups, I don't think having a HorizontalGroup with two Sequential Groups in it will help?

What am I missing?

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