Array of JPanel and Array of JTextField?

Question

Hi,
I try to create array of jpanel and inizialize it in "for" , but when run it give me this error message:
"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException"
at the row: "panInsCantante.add(panInsNCC);"
why?
(ps. i tried in another code to create array of jtextfield and it give me same error message..)
here part of code :
      JPanel [] panInsCantante = new JPanel[3];
      for(int i=0;i<=N;i++){
           JPanel panInsNCC= new JPanel();
           panInsNCC.setLayout( new GridLayout(3,1) );
           panInsNCC.add(campoTesto1);
           panInsNCC.add(campoTesto2);
           panInsNCC.add(campoTesto3);
           //panInsCantante[i] = new JPanel();
           //panInsCantante.setLayout( new GridLayout(1,1) );
     panInsCantante[i].add(panInsNCC);

Answer 1

a question (theoric...)A VERY important question I may add.
what's the difference between ..
this instance :
JPanel [] panInsCantante = new
JPanel[3];This declares and initializes the array itself, nothing more. No JPanels have been initialized as yet, just the array. It's as if you have now built the shelves to hold the books, but you have no books up there yet...
and this instance of panInsCantante? :
panInsCantante[i] = new JPanel();and this initializes each JPanel in the array as you loop through the array. .... and now you have filled the shelves with the books and can use the books.
You will need them both.
In all likelihood, the reason for your confusion is that all of your previous arrays were arrays of primative types: int, double, float, and char. In this situation, you don't need to go through the step of initializing the variable.
But now you are faced for the first time with an array of reference type, an array of Objects. This is a different situation and requires the steps that we have gone through.
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