Thread: why wony my label show on gui

I am trying to add a label to my gui, i am using the following code but it is not showing.

Can some one tell what i am doing wrong please

 
		contentPane = this.getContentPane(); 
		contentPane.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
		contentPane.setLayout(null);
 
    JLabel greeting = new JLabel("hello");
    greeting.setFont(new Font("SansSerif", Font.PLAIN, 18));
    contentPane.add(greeting);
    greeting.setVisible(true);

 
 
public class game extends JFrame{
 
private JLabel greeting;
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
 
		new game();
 
	}
 
	public game() {
 
 
		contentPane = this.getContentPane(); 
		contentPane.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
		contentPane.setLayout(null);
 
        JLabel greeting = new JLabel ("welkom");
        contentPane.add(greeting, BorderLayout.NORTH);
 
  	setResizable(true);
		setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		setVisible(true);
    }
}

use the existing layout.

i thought i need to add another layout because the label wouldnt show

Originally Posted by Norm

Then get rid of the call to setLayout()

without this

 contentPane.setLayout(null);

my layout of the rest of my gui goes funny

--- Update ---

ive solved it, just needed to set the bounds.

Originally Posted by newtolearningjava

I am trying to add a label to my gui, i am using the following code but it is not showing.

Can some one tell what i am doing wrong please

 
		contentPane = this.getContentPane(); 
		contentPane.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
		contentPane.setLayout(null);
 
    JLabel greeting = new JLabel("hello");
    greeting.setFont(new Font("SansSerif", Font.PLAIN, 18));
    contentPane.add(greeting);
    greeting.setVisible(true);

Personally, I don't like using JLabels in the format you used. I would normally use them like this

JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.set(new JLabel("Hi"));

but to make the format you used work correctly, i'm assuming you would need to add your jframe name.add(greeting); like this

 
		contentPane = this.getContentPane(); 
		contentPane.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
		contentPane.setLayout(null);
 
    JLabel greeting = new JLabel("hello");
   your jframe name.add(greeting);
    greeting.setFont(new Font("SansSerif", Font.PLAIN, 18));
    contentPane.add(greeting);
    greeting.setVisible(true);