Thread: JButton issue, please help

so im coming up with a program that im wanting to have a button, but it isnt showing with my graphics on the frame and i dont know what to do.

Im trying to pretty much combine these two pictures below and have the button on the bottom.





Here is the code i have for putting these into the frame.

    public void showInterface()
    {       
 
 
    	//FRAME
        frame.setSize(700, 800);
        frame.setTitle("HangMan");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        //PULLS IN STARTING GRAPHICS
        display = new DisplayComponent();
    	JPanel panel = new JPanel();
    	//BUTTON NEEDING TO BE IN THE FRAME, SHOWING GRAPHICS
    	button = new JButton("Guess");
        AddButtonListener listener = new AddButtonListener();
 
    	panel.add(button);
        frame.add(display);
        frame.add(panel);
        button.addActionListener(listener);
 
 
 
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

This part

        frame.add(display);
        frame.add(panel);

adds the two components to the default CENTER position of the default BorderLayout of a JFrame. Naturally, only the last added is seen.

Recommended reading:
Lesson: Laying Out Components Within a Container (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing)

db

Originally Posted by aussiemcgr

If I am not mistaking, the issue is that the JButton is effectively overriding the JPanel's draw methods when you add it to the JPanel,or hiding the drawing or something. I'm not entirely sure of what exactly is happening, but the JButton trumps the drawing.

Sorry, you're mistaken. The situation you describe can arise out of wrongly and inappropriately overriding paint(...) of a JComponent. This one's a simple (lack of understanding of ) layout problem.

db