BorderLayout WEST, EAST and CENTER regions wont display?

Question

Hi all thanks for comments on the last post, very helpfull. I have writen this code and cant figure out why it is not displaying anything in either of the CENTER WEST OR EAST regions of the borderlayout. Sorry its a bit messy and still trying to get to grips with swing.Thx
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
/* FrameDemo.java requires no other files. */
public class SwingDemo {
     * Create the GUI and show it.  For thread safety,
     * this method should be invoked from the
     * event-dispatching thread.
      JFrame frame1 = new JFrame("Crazyness1");
     JButton aButton1 = new JButton("PIE FACE");
     JButton aButton2 = new JButton("SHIT FACE");
     Label acNumLabel = new Label("Account Number: ");
     TextField textarea_1 = new TextField("Hello", 10);
     TextField textarea_2 = new TextField("Hello", 10);
    public SwingDemo() {
        //Create and set up the window.
        Container crazyness1 = frame1.getContentPane();
        JPanel aPanel1 = new JPanel(new BorderLayout(800,600));
        aPanel1.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(175, 100));
        crazyness1.add(aPanel1);
          FlowLayout aFLayout = new FlowLayout(1,50, 10);
        JPanel aPanel2 = new JPanel(aFLayout);
        aFLayout.setAlignment(FlowLayout.CENTER);
        FlowLayout aFLayout2 = new FlowLayout(1,10,10);
        JPanel aPanel3 = new JPanel(aFLayout2);
        aFLayout2.setAlignment(FlowLayout.CENTER);
        JPanel aPanel4 = new JPanel();
        aPanel4.setLayout(new BoxLayout(aPanel4, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
        aPanel1.add(aPanel2,BorderLayout.SOUTH);// add extra panel to south zone
        aPanel1.add(aPanel3,BorderLayout.NORTH);
         aPanel1.add(aPanel4,BorderLayout.CENTER);
           aPanel1.add(aPanel4,BorderLayout.WEST);
        aPanel3.add(acNumLabel);//ad  label
        aPanel3.add(textarea_1);//add textarea to panel
        aPanel2.add(aButton1);
          aButton1.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_I);
          aButton1.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
          textarea_1.setText("SHIT FACE");   }
        aPanel2.add(aButton2);
        aButton2.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_I);
          aButton2.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
          textarea_1.setText("PIE FACE");   }
        //Display the window.
        frame1.pack();
        frame1.setVisible(true);
  public static void main(String[] args){
    new SwingDemo();
}

Answer 1

Just what are you trying to do here?aPanel1.add(aPanel4,BorderLayout.CENTER);
aPanel1.add(aPanel4,BorderLayout.WEST);You do realize that it doesn't make sense to add the same component twice?
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luck, db