Hi, I have what I think is a relitavely simple problem:

I have a bigger application with multiple JPanels etc but have scaled it
down for the example below...

When I resize the window so that it is too small to fit all the buttons on
screen horizontally I would like the buttons to re-organise themselves on
screen in the way they would do if they were just directly on the JFrame
rather than in a couple of JPanels.

If possible I would like a reason for this behaviour and a way to make the
buttons react like this:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorialJWS/uiswing/layout/example-1dot4/FlowLayo
utDemo.jnlp
when they are underneath multiple JPanels.

Thanks
Angus

public class Application extends javax.swing.JFrame {

   /** Creates new form Application */
   public Application() {
       initComponents();
   }

   private void initComponents() {
       jPanel2 = new javax.swing.JPanel();
       jPanel1 = new javax.swing.JPanel();
       jButton1 = new javax.swing.JButton();
       jButton2 = new javax.swing.JButton();
       jButton3 = new javax.swing.JButton();
       jButton4 = new javax.swing.JButton();
       jButton6 = new javax.swing.JButton();
       jButton5 = new javax.swing.JButton();
       jButton7 = new javax.swing.JButton();
       jButton8 = new javax.swing.JButton();
       jButton9 = new javax.swing.JButton();

       setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
       jPanel2.setLayout(new java.awt.BorderLayout());

       jButton1.setText("jButton1");
       jPanel1.add(jButton1);

       jButton2.setText("jButton2");
       jPanel1.add(jButton2);

       jButton3.setText("jButton3");
       jPanel1.add(jButton3);

       jButton4.setText("jButton4");
       jPanel1.add(jButton4);

       jButton6.setText("jButton6");
       jPanel1.add(jButton6);

       jButton5.setText("jButton5");
       jPanel1.add(jButton5);

       jButton7.setText("jButton7");
       jPanel1.add(jButton7);

       jButton8.setText("jButton8");
       jPanel1.add(jButton8);

       jButton9.setText("jButton9");
       jPanel1.add(jButton9);

       jPanel2.add(jPanel1, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);

       getContentPane().add(jPanel2, java.awt.BorderLayout.NORTH);

       pack();
   }

   /**
    * @param args the command line arguments
    */
   public static void main(String args[]) {
       new Application().show();
   }

   // Variables declaration - do not modify
   private javax.swing.JButton jButton1;
   private javax.swing.JButton jButton2;
   private javax.swing.JButton jButton3;
   private javax.swing.JButton jButton4;
   private javax.swing.JButton jButton5;
   private javax.swing.JButton jButton6;
   private javax.swing.JButton jButton7;
   private javax.swing.JButton jButton8;
   private javax.swing.JButton jButton9;
   private javax.swing.JPanel jPanel1;
   private javax.swing.JPanel jPanel2;
   // End of variables declaration

}