JLayeredPane with JScrollPane inside

Question

Hi all,
I am making an applet with a fairly complex gui. The main part is a content window that has a jpanel with another jpanel and a jscrollpane inside, each of which have a bunch of components. From there I wanted to add a help window that popped up when you hit the help button. What I did is I got the JLayeredPane from the applet using getLayeredPane(), and I added the help window to the popup layer, and the content window to the default layer. I'm using a null layout and manually setting the bounds of everything. All the panels draw correctly, but when I open the help window, it displays inside the JScrollPane; i.e. it moves when I scroll, and the contents of the scroll pane are displayed on top of the help window. Here is some of my code, if I wasn't clear:
          //this grabs the applet's layered pane. The wrapper pane (with all the traces)
          //is on the default layer, and the help window (and any other popups) will go in the popup layer
          appletLayered = getLayeredPane();
          appletLayered.setLayout(null);
          //create the help window that will be displayed when someone presses help
          helpWindow = new HelpWindow(getCodeBase().toString());
          appletLayered.add(helpWindow, JLayeredPane.POPUP_LAYER);
          helpWindow.setBounds(50,50,400,450);
          appletLayered.add(wrapperPane, JLayeredPane.DEFAULT_LAYER);
          wrapperPane.setBounds(0,20,700,550);Does anyone know why it is doing this? Should I just do this whole thing a different way, or is there an easy solution that I'm missing.

Answer 1

Swing related questions should be posted in the Swing forum.
From there I wanted to add a help window* that popped up when you hit the help button.Then use a JDialog (or a JWindow), not a layered pane.
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