JPanel BIG problem can you help me?

Question

Hi
I can not show you my code now because i am at friend house right now but I will post it tomorrow.
The problem is that when I try to add for example 3 Jbuttons to JApplet I can only see the 3 one(the last one which i added last). Do you know how can i fix the problem.
I am using BorderLayout(2,2). If i don you any of these just default layout, than i have no problem. I can see two buttons. With the BorderLayout definded in the right under class name. I am getting BIG button and only one no 3 like i wanted. WHy i can not have 3 or more buttons with BorderLayout. Any idea??

Answer 1

Hi,
If your code does something like the following, you'll get one big button called Three. The other's are there, but they're behind the third button because they've all been added in the same place.
JPanel p = new JPanel();
p.setLayout(new BorderLayout(2,2));
p.add(new Button("One"));
p.add(new Button("Two"));
p.add(new Button("Three"));
BorderLayout uses constants to let you tell it whereabouts you want the component to go; these constants are things like BorderLayout.NORTH, BorderLayout.CENTER, etc.
You need to do the following:
JPanel p = new JPanel();
p.setLayout(new BorderLayout(2,2));
p.add(new Button("One"), BorderLayout.NORTH);
p.add(new Button("Two"), BorderLayout.CENTER);
p.add(new Button("Three"), BorderLayout.SOUTH);
If you don't include the second parameter, it assumes you mean center - that's why all three buttons were going into the same place before.
Hope this helps,
Neil
http://www.theBatCave.org.uk