Re: JPanels on Layered Pane don't appear where i want.

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:21:29 GMT
Message-ID:
<736395fb2fe73@uwe>
Kgbol wrote:

Hello. I'm working on a interface to a program that teaches kid's
mathematics. My menu base on JPanels that are grouped intu
JLayeredPane. Each JPanel have it's depth. I would like to do that if
a Pannel appear on top of the others(is active) it covers all the
frame. Unfortunately it don't want to cover it. It leaves few pixels
space like on the image HERE:


I looked at the image, and then added the statements
necessary to make that code snippet compile. The
problem failed to show in the code I had running. But then
I made a lot of it up, and it probably does not match your
code closely.

What I will suggest is that you forget the screenshots
and code snippets for the moment, and post an SSCCE*
that demonstrates the effect you describe.

* <http://www.physci.org/codes/sscce.html>

I will add though..

Calls to setBounds make for a fragile GUI. Use layouts.

The general idea of having a number of components,
of which one is visible at any moment, is probably
best implemented using a CardLayout.

--
Andrew Thompson
http://www.athompson.info/andrew/

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