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I'm trying to make a JFrame application that emulates an 80 by 24
terminal with fixed width font (for displaying a Roguelike game). But
around the terminal part, I'd like to be able to place other
components as well (list of items held, etc). I'm not very experienced
with Swing and the best I've been able to manage is a JFrame that
isn't resizeable holding single JTextArea. If I make it so the JFrame
is of just the right size to fit 80 by 24 characters along with a
JMenuBar at the top, then things come out looking right.

The problem is, if I ever try to put any more components into the same
JFrame, I'm unable to control their size interacting with the
JTextArea. Or even, I can't get the JTextArea to stick to it's
preferred size if I make the JFrame resizeable and then expand it a
bit. I suspect this has to do with the LayoutManager, but I don't
really know much about them other than the basics of GridLayout and
BorderLayout. I tried using a SplitPane but they also seemed to use
relative positioning like everything else, which isn't much help.

Is what I'm after possible? Do I just need a different approach?

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