Java/AWT/Swing: about validation and sizes?

All of your issues and questions could be solved if you used LayoutManagers. You seem to be trying really hard to avoid them but really they are your best ally when it comes to layout out GUI items.

After reading your comments, it seems that you just want to do absolute positioning using a null layout. There's a tutorial on it, but the gist is that you set the layout manager to null for your container, and then call setBounds() on each component in that container to set its size and position, like this.

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