A component's horizontal position within a row is determined partly by when
it was added to the container and is affected by the alignment value used
by the FlowLayout. In the screenshot above, the components are
left aligned, but below you can see the displays that are generated when
the components are right aligned and center aligned:
As you can see, the alignment value is used to determine how to distribute
extra space that's available when a row's components do not occupy the
entire width of the container.
Resizing Behavior
Reducing the width of a container managed by a FlowLayout
causes the rows to shrink in size, which may cause some components to be
moved to a new or different row. If the width of the frame is reduced
further, then portions of the wider components begin to disappear, as shown
below:
Similarly, if the frame's vertical size is reduced so that there's not
enough vertical space to display all rows, some of the components will
become partially or completely inaccessible:
Increasing the width of a FlowLayout-managed container may
allow more components to appear on a single row than were placed there
previously.
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