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Hello. I have successful made an layerPaned. But the JPanels stopped to repaint() when LayerPaned was added(worked before). Have have tried to fix this in lots of days now but I really cant solve it.
The only wrong I can think of is that I don't have full access to the layer. But have looked over http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/Component.html many times and cant find anything useful. Can you see what I have missed? (I know it would be easyer if I made this "shorten problem example code" thing. But I have really tried do that for some hours, but the result was way to many lines. So just added main and layerPane classes where the problem should be located at):
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
import javax.accessibility.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class LayeredPane extends JPanel{
// Other classes added
    private JLayeredPane layer;
    private Performance p = new Performance(3);
// to reduce the code I removed this(stringView) JPanel(Just to not make you to confused)
    private stringView sview = new stringView(p);
    private View view = new View(p);
    private TextField f = new TextField(view, p, sview);
// Constructor: taking in the layers to add
    public LayeredPane(Performance p, stringView sview, View view, TextField f){
        this.sview = sview;
        this.view = view;
        this.p = p;
        this.f = f;
        layer = new JLayeredPane();
        layer.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(600,500));
// creating the panels with the createPane1(2) methods
       View pane1 = createPane1(new Point(0, 0));
       TextField pane2 = createPane2(new Point(50, 50));
// adding the panels and z possition for them
       layer.add(pane1, new Integer(1));
       layer.add(pane2, new Integer(2));
       add(layer);
// In this methods I have tried to add things like this without any result:
        v.setEnabled(true);
        v.enable(true);
        v.setFocusable(true);
    private View createPane1(Point origin) {
        View v = new View(p);
        v.setOpaque(true);
        v.setBounds(0, 0, 600, 500);
        return v;
    private TextField createPane2(Point origin) {
        TextField f = new TextField(view, p, sview);
        f.setOpaque(true);
        f.setBounds(200, 400, 300, 50);
        f.requestFocus();
        return f;
}And here is the Main class I also had to change to add the JComponent/layers
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
import javax.accessibility.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Main{
public static void main(String[] args) {
         //Create and set up the window.
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("title");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        //Create and set up the content pane with all the classes
        Performance p = new Performance(3);
// stringView and View draws up correctly here but NEVER repaints(have told it to repaint in another class)
        stringView s = new stringView(p);
        View v = new View(p);
        TextField f = new TextField(v, p, s);
        v.setBounds(0,0,500,500);
        JComponent newContentPane = new LayeredPane(p, s, v, f);
// Here comes some desperate tries. . . .
        newContentPane.setEnabled(true);
        newContentPane.enable(true);
        newContentPane.setFocusable(true);
        newContentPane.setOpaque(true);
        frame.setContentPane(newContentPane);
        //Display the window.
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
}Offcorse it repaints as a JFrame do when I rezise the JFrame window with the mouse when the program is running. Thats why I also came up with the question: is it not possible to somehow make the framewindow change width/height with 1 px or something by a method call?
Great thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

Ok. I belive I might understand whats wrong.
http://hem.bredband.net/hunter85/help.jpg
Normaly when JPanels are directly connected to "Main" they are like mirrors and repaints(). But when added to a JLayeredPane() it�s the JLayeredPane() who needs to be repainted/updated/runned.
Can someone please tell me if I�mcorrect or wrong about this to start with?