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Thread: Imported Class of Components are Hidden

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    Default Imported Class of Components are Hidden

    I'm not sure how to word this, but I did my best in the title. I'm creating a GUI and for simplicity it has a frame, a tabbed pane, a panel, and a button. Originally, they started in the same class, but I want to try splitting them into two classes.

    So now I have this...

    import FirstPanel.java
     
    public class GUI extends JFrame{
    private JFrame frame;
    private JTabbedPane tabs;
    private FirstPanel firstPanel;
     
    //Constructor
    public GUI(){
    frame = new JFrame();
    tabs = new JTabbedPane();
    firstPanel = new FirstPanel();
     
    tabs.add("Tab #1", firstPanel);
    frame.add(tabs);
    //Set frame visible and the size etc...
     
    }
     
    public static void main(String[] args){
    GUI gui = new GUI();
    gui.setVisible(true);
    }

    What is FirstPanel? It's the second class!

    public class FirstPanel extends JPanel{
    private JPanel panel;
    private JButton button;
     
    //Constructor
    public FirstPanel(){
     
    panel = new JPanel();
    button = new JButton("Why can't you see me?");
     
    panel.add(button);
    }
    }

    The output I am looking for is a frame with a tab with a panel with a button.

    Now, when I run GUI, I get a frame with a tab with a panel but there is no button displayed. I thought at first that it was because all components need to be in the same class, but I dismiss that because I am at least getting ONE panel.

    I get no errors or output from this, only a missing button.

    Any help is greatly appreciated!
    Cheers!
    -Polaris395


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    Default Re: Imported Class of Components are Hidden

    FirstPanel IS A JPanel (it extends JPanel). It also HAS A JPanel (named panel). You're adding the JButton to the HAS A JPanel, but you're adding the IS A JPanel to the JFrame.
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    Default Re: Imported Class of Components are Hidden

    Oh! Duh! I guess I've been looking at my code to long to notice that, lol.

    Thanks!

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    Default Re: Imported Class of Components are Hidden

    Quote Originally Posted by polaris395 View Post
    Oh! Duh! I guess I've been looking at my code to long to notice that, lol.

    Thanks!
    No problem. This is one reason people argue for "composition over inheritance". If FirstPanel doesn't actually modify the functionality of JPanel, there's no reason for it to extend JPanel. Instead, just have a getPanel() method that returns the JPanel after whatever initialization is done. I might not be explaining it that great, but a google of "composition over inheritance" brings back some good results.
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