Help for the Newbie

Question

Eh, I might hang around a while, so you might as well know that I'm new to this stuff, and I may need a lot of help over time. I guess that's what these forums are for though right? Anyway, my future goal is gaming, and I might look around the game section once I become more skilled. The only game I created was in um.... coughTruebasic*cough*. Anyway, on to my first question:
I've got my simple little test program(Application, not applet): A JFrame, and a button on it. When I hit this button, it calls the repaint() method of a subclass of JPanel, which, essentially, just paints an image on itself. Everything works except for one thing. When the picture is painted, the only thing that shows up is a tiny little square next to the button a few pixles wide. This is appearently the corner of my picture. Any idea on how to fix this?

Answer 1

Make sure you set your JPanel's PrefereSize to somehing like
the Image's width and height.
Also, maybe play with the Layout. If this all looks greek,
then look to the Tutorials (left side of page) and APIs
for details. The APIs should be your best friends.