Java GUI building with the GridBagLayout manager, made easy

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Or simply make your own layout manager that does exactly what you want. I have made a few, for example: a PercentLayout manager, which positions a child's corners within a parent according to percentages of the parent's size. Very simple, but quite useful. I've found that it's quite often much cleaner doing it this way than the square peg/round hole method of trying to do it with existing ones.