How to set back ground

Question

I have a jMenu Frame, and i am trying to set its background to black, but it seems like I am missing something here:
jMenu.setSize( 300, 300 );
jMenu.setLocation( 500, 500 );
jMenu.getContentPane().setLayout( new FlowLayout() );
jMenu.addWindowListener( new MyWindowListener() );
// Create button for the menu frame
JButton jbStart = new JButton("Start");
jbStart.setActionCommand("Start");
JButton jbExit = new JButton("Exit");
jbExit.setActionCommand("Exit");
JButton jbCredit = new JButton("Credit");
jbCredit.setActionCommand("Credit");
//Add TextField for player to enter their name
JTextField jtPlayer1 = new JTextField( 15 );
JTextField jtPlayer2 = new JTextField( 15 );
// Add listener to button and text field
jbStart.addActionListener( new MyActionListener() );
jbExit.addActionListener( new MyActionListener() );
jbCredit.addActionListener( new MyActionListener() );
jtPlayer1.addKeyListener( new MyKeyListener() );
jtPlayer2.addKeyListener( new MyKeyListener() );
// Add button into the Menu frame
jMenu.getContentPane().add( jbStart );
jMenu.getContentPane().add( jbCredit );
jMenu.getContentPane().add( jbExit );
jMenu.getContentPane().add( jtPlayer1 );
jMenu.getContentPane().add( jtPlayer2 );
// make the Menu visible
jMenu.setBackground( Color.blue );
jMenu.setVisible( true );
Could anyone tell me what I need to add in order to make it work?
thanks

Answer 1

One thing i would do is add all my components (buttons, textfields, and whatnot) to a JPanel and then set the JPanel as the content instead of having all those getContentPane ().add (); parts...