Buttons become the same size as my image?? PLEASE HELP

Question

Hi guys,
this is the second posting of this topic, as in the first one i didn't post my code properly (sorry!!!)
My problem is that the buttons i have in the code come up as the same size as the 'Goldsmiths' Image. How can i alter the provided code to make the image stay the same size and the buttons to have the default button size?
Thanks
//SSPanesar
//copyright 2005 all rights reserved
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.net.URL;
public class SwingApplication implements ActionListener {
private static String labelPrefix = "Number of button clicks: ";
private int numClicks = 0;
final JLabel label = new JLabel(labelPrefix + "0 ");
//Specify the look and feel to use. Valid values:
//null (use the default), "Metal", "System", "Motif", "GTK+"
final static String LOOKANDFEEL = "System";
public Component createComponents() {
JButton button = new JButton("I'm a Swing button!");
button.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_I);
button.addActionListener(this);
label.setLabelFor(button);
JButton button1 = new JButton("I'm a Swing button!");
     button1.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_I);
     button1.addActionListener(this);
label.setLabelFor(button1);
JButton button2 = new JButton("I'm a Swing button!");
     button2.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_I);
     button2.addActionListener(this);
label.setLabelFor(button2);
JButton button3 = new JButton("I'm a Swing button!");
     button3.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_I);
     button3.addActionListener(this);
label.setLabelFor(button3);
JButton button4 = new JButton("I'm a Swing button!");
     button4.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_I);
     button4.addActionListener(this);
label.setLabelFor(button4);
JLabel label = new JLabel();
     URL loc = getClass().getResource("smalllogo2.gif");
     Icon icon = new ImageIcon(loc);
     label.setSize(icon.getIconWidth(), icon.getIconHeight());
label.setIcon(icon);
JLabel label2 = new JLabel();
     URL loc2 = getClass().getResource("SheeraAutoRepair2.jpg");
     Icon icon2 = new ImageIcon(loc2);
     label2.setSize(icon.getIconWidth(), icon.getIconHeight());
label2.setIcon(icon2);
* An easy way to put space between a top-level container
* and its contents is to put the contents in a JPanel
* that has an "empty" border.
JPanel pane = new JPanel(new GridLayout(0, 1));
//pane.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.RIGHT));
pane.add(label);
pane.add(button);
pane.add(button1);
pane.add(button2);
pane.add(button3);
pane.add(button4);
pane.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(
30, //top
30, //left
10, //bottom
30) //right
pane.setBackground(Color.white);
return pane;
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
numClicks++;
label.setText(labelPrefix + numClicks);
private static void initLookAndFeel() {
String lookAndFeel = null;
if (LOOKANDFEEL != null) {
if (LOOKANDFEEL.equals("Metal")) {
lookAndFeel = UIManager.getCrossPlatformLookAndFeelClassName();
} else if (LOOKANDFEEL.equals("System")) {
lookAndFeel = UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName();
} else if (LOOKANDFEEL.equals("Motif")) {
lookAndFeel = "com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel";
} else if (LOOKANDFEEL.equals("GTK+")) { //new in 1.4.2
lookAndFeel = "com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel";
} else {
System.err.println("Unexpected value of LOOKANDFEEL specified: "
+ LOOKANDFEEL);
lookAndFeel = UIManager.getCrossPlatformLookAndFeelClassName();
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(lookAndFeel);
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
System.err.println("Couldn't find class for specified look and feel:"
+ lookAndFeel);
System.err.println("Did you include the L&F library in the class path?");
System.err.println("Using the default look and feel.");
} catch (UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e) {
System.err.println("Can't use the specified look and feel ("
+ lookAndFeel
+ ") on this platform.");
System.err.println("Using the default look and feel.");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println("Couldn't get specified look and feel ("
+ lookAndFeel
+ "), for some reason.");
System.err.println("Using the default look and feel.");
e.printStackTrace();
* Create the GUI and show it. For thread safety,
* this method should be invoked from the
* event-dispatching thread.
private static void createAndShowGUI() {
//Set the look and feel.
initLookAndFeel();
//Make sure we have nice window decorations.
// JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
//Create and set up the window.
JFrame frame = new JFrame("SwingApplication");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
//final int width=300;
//final int height=400;
frame.setSize(600,900);
SwingApplication app = new SwingApplication();
Component contents = app.createComponents();
frame.getContentPane().add(contents, BorderLayout.CENTER);
//Display the window.
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
public static void main(String[] args) {
//Schedule a job for the event-dispatching thread:
//creating and showing this application's GUI.
javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
createAndShowGUI();
}

Answer 1

You still aren't using the "code" formatting tags as was suggested in your first posting in the forum.
when i add the picture and the buttons go vertically down from the image,Well, this doesn't make sense since you are using a FlowLayout which means components will be displayed horizontally on a line, not vertically.
If you need further help then you need to create a [url http://www.physci.org/codes/sscce.jsp]Short, Self Contained, Compilable and Executable, Example Program that demonstrates the incorrect behaviour, because I can't guess exactly what you are doing based on the information provided. (ie. the code doesn't compile so we can't test it).