Greetings,

I"m trying to create a column of buttons that have equal width and with each
button having preferred height.  Below is an example I modified slightly
from a 1999 comp.lang.java.programmer post.  I could use
JComponent.setMaximumSize on each button, but that seems like too much work
for such a common layout.  Is there an easy way to make the buttons, "Button
1", "Button long" and "Button 3" have equal width?

Thanks

-Paul

import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
import java.beans.*;

public class Layout1 extends JPanel
{
 public Layout1()
 {
   JPanel labelPanel = new JPanel();
   labelPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder());
   labelPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(labelPanel, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
   labelPanel.add(new JLabel("Label 1"));
   labelPanel.add(new JLabel("Label 2"));
   labelPanel.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
   labelPanel.add(new JLabel("Label 3"));

   JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel();
   buttonPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder());
   buttonPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(buttonPanel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
   buttonPanel.add(new JButton("Button 1"));
   buttonPanel.add(new JButton("Button long"));
   buttonPanel.add(new JButton("Button 3"));
   buttonPanel.add(Box.createVerticalGlue());

   JPanel panel = new JPanel();
   panel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder());
   panel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
   panel.add(BorderLayout.CENTER, new JLabel("Remaining space"));

   setLayout(new BorderLayout());
   add(BorderLayout.NORTH,  labelPanel);
   add(BorderLayout.WEST,   buttonPanel);
   add(BorderLayout.CENTER, panel);
 }

 static public void main(String args[])
 {
   JFrame frame = new JFrame("Layout Test");

   frame.getContentPane().add(BorderLayout.CENTER, new Layout1());
   frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter()
     { public void windowClosing(WindowEvent we) { System.exit(1); }});

   frame.setSize(400, 300);
   frame.setVisible(true);
 }
}