Components not appearing until clicked

Question

Hi
I've made a pool game with textfields for chat with opponents, although the panel with the game in appears fine on the screen, but the panel with textfield, textarea, and scrollbar dont appear until you click on them.
Anybody got any ideas?

Answer 1

I'm not sure hopefully you can tell. I'm not too hot on AWT/swing so it could be anything
<code>
public class PoolTableGraphics extends JApplet implements MouseMotionListener,MouseListener,KeyListener
//variables
class myPanel extends JPanel{
     public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
class ImagePanel extends JPanel {
Image image;
public ImagePanel(Image image) {
this.image = image;
     public void update(Graphics g)
          paint(g);                                   }
     public void paint(Graphics g)
//add table & balls etc
g.drawImage(offscreen.getBuffer(),0,0,this);
public void init()
{image = getImage(getDocumentBase(), "pool_table.gif");
     imagePanel = new ImagePanel(image);
     Container contentPane = getContentPane();
     GridBagLayout gridbag = new GridBagLayout();
     GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();
     contentPane.setLayout(gridbag);
     contentPane.setBackground(Color.blue);
     c.ipady = 289;
     c.ipadx = 540;
     c.weightx = 0.5;
     c.gridx = 0;
     c.gridy = 0;
     gridbag.setConstraints(imagePanel, c);
     contentPane.add(imagePanel);
     JPanel p=new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
     p.setBackground(new Color(0,0,0));
     text= new JTextField();
     text.setBackground(new Color(255,246,212));
     text.addKeyListener(this);
     text.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLoweredBevelBorder());
     textarea=new JTextArea(100,7);
     textarea.setBackground(new Color(255,246,212));
     textarea.setEditable(false);
        JScrollPane scroller=new JScrollPane(textarea);
     scroller.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(540, 100));
     scroller.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLoweredBevelBorder());
     JPanel label=new JPanel();
     label.setBackground(new Color(247,148,29));
     label.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(540,1));
     p.add(text,BorderLayout.NORTH);
               //p.add(label,BorderLayout.CENTER);
     p.add(scroller,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
     c.ipady = 90;
     c.gridx = 0;
     c.gridy = 1;
     gridbag.setConstraints(p, c);
     contentPane.add(p);
     setVisible(true);
    setSize(550,500);
     imagePanel.addMouseListener(this);
     addMouseListener(this);
     imagePanel.addMouseMotionListener(this);
     addMouseMotionListener(this);
     offscreen=new BufferedGraphics(this);
//initialise game variables
public void paint(Graphics g)
     imagePanel.repaint();//update game area
//rest of game code
</code>