MenuBar problems

Question

Everything works as it should, except when I click the actions menu button the JLabel covers up part of the drop down menu. If I resize the window smaller so that the drop down menu is longer than the window itself when clicked, it shows up on top of the JLabel. Why is this happening??
Here's the code:
public class GUI implements ActionListener {
private JFrame aWindow = new JFrame ( "Encipher v2.0" );
private JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
private JPanel top = new JPanel();
private JPanel bottom = new JPanel();
private JLabel output;
private JPanel home = new JPanel();
private JPanel verytop = new JPanel();
private JPanel mid = new JPanel();
private TextField input;
private int flag=0;
String password;
Container content = aWindow.getContentPane();
public GUI() {
Toolkit thekit = aWindow.getToolkit();
Dimension wndsize = thekit.getScreenSize();
aWindow.setBounds ( wndsize.width/4, wndsize.height/4, wndsize.width/2, wndsize.height/2 );
aWindow.setDefaultCloseOperation ( WindowConstants.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE );
content.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
home.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,0));
bottom.setLayout(new GridLayout(10,0));
top.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,0));
//menuBar.setBorder(new BevelBorder(BevelBorder.RAISED));
//menuBar.setBorderPainted(true);
input = new TextField("",60);
output = new JLabel("---");
JMenu actionsMenu = new JMenu ( "Actions", true );
JMenuItem createMI = new JMenuItem ( "1. Create" );
createMI.addActionListener(this);
JMenuItem specialMI = new JMenuItem ( "2. Replace spaces" );
specialMI.addActionListener(this);
JMenuItem spacesMI = new JMenuItem ( "3. Remove spaces" );
spacesMI.addActionListener(this);
JMenuItem haxorMI = new JMenuItem ( "4. Letters to numbers" );
haxorMI.addActionListener(this);
JMenuItem uvowelsMI = new JMenuItem ( "5. Capitalize vowels" );
uvowelsMI.addActionListener(this);
JMenuItem uconsMI = new JMenuItem ( "6. Capitalize cons." );
uconsMI.addActionListener(this);
JMenuItem reverseMI = new JMenuItem ( "7. Reverse case" );
reverseMI.addActionListener(this);
JMenuItem numlettMI = new JMenuItem ( "8. Number to alpha rep." );
numlettMI.addActionListener(this);
JMenuItem lettnumMI = new JMenuItem ( "9. Alpha to number rep." );
lettnumMI.addActionListener(this);
JMenuItem startoverMI = new JMenuItem ( "10. Start Over" );
startoverMI.addActionListener(this);
actionsMenu.add(createMI);
actionsMenu.add(specialMI);
actionsMenu.add(spacesMI);
actionsMenu.add(haxorMI);
actionsMenu.add(uvowelsMI);
actionsMenu.add(uconsMI);
actionsMenu.add(reverseMI);
actionsMenu.add(numlettMI);
actionsMenu.add(lettnumMI);
actionsMenu.add(startoverMI);
menuBar.add(actionsMenu);
actionsMenu.setBorder(new BevelBorder(BevelBorder.RAISED));
actionsMenu.setBorderPainted(true);
content.add(menuBar, BorderLayout.NORTH);
JButton b1 = new JButton("1. Create Password from phrase");
b1.addActionListener(this);
bottom.add(b1);
JButton b2 = new JButton("2. Replace spaces with a special character");
b2.addActionListener(this);
bottom.add(b2);
JButton b3 = new JButton("3. Remove spaces");
b3.addActionListener(this);
bottom.add(b3);
JButton b4 = new JButton("4. Replace letters with numbers");
b4.addActionListener(this);
bottom.add(b4);
JButton b5 = new JButton("5. Capitalize vowels");
b5.addActionListener(this);
bottom.add(b5);
JButton b6 = new JButton("6. Capitalize consonants.");
b6.addActionListener(this);
bottom.add(b6);
JButton b7 = new JButton("7. Reverse case");
b7.addActionListener(this);
bottom.add(b7);
JButton b8 = new JButton("8. Replace numbers with alpha representation");
b8.addActionListener(this);
bottom.add(b8);
JButton b9 = new JButton("9. Replace alpha with numeric representation");
b9.addActionListener(this);
bottom.add(b9);
JButton b10 = new JButton("10. Start over using original input");
b10.addActionListener(this);
bottom.add(b10);
verytop.add(input);
mid.add(output);
top.add(verytop);
top.add(mid);
home.add(top);
home.add(bottom);
content.add(home, BorderLayout.CENTER);
//content.add(top);
//content.add(bottom);
public void display() {
content.setVisible(true);
aWindow.setVisible (true);
}

Answer 1

ok.. check this thread... i had eexactly the sam,e problem and the answer here solve it
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=321750