Page palette appears to be very strange in Indesign (and don't know how to fix it)

So one day, my Page Palette just went cuckoo in Indesign.The bottom area, where you can normally delete, add, or shows you how many pages there are, or the very lower right scretch corner are all missing. I've tried to go to Palette options and see it is a "View" issue, but nothing seems to bring those functions back.
This could either be something Very simple and I am an idiot, or it is something alot more major, which I am praying it's not.
Thanks, any insights is great apperciated!!

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public class ChangeLayoutAndPaint {
private static JPanel panel;
private static JLabel label;
public static void main(String[] args) {
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        // the panel spread out vertically
        panel = new JPanel();
        panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
        // the buttons in the panel
        JButton b1, b2, b3;
        panel.add(b1 = new JButton("One"));
        panel.add(b2 = new JButton("Two"));
        panel.add(b3 = new JButton("Three"));
        b1.setEnabled(false);
        b2.setEnabled(false);
        b3.setEnabled(false);
        // the label with a border around it to show size in a temp panel with flowlayout to not stuff around
        // with the actual size we want.
        JPanel thingy = new JPanel();
        label = new JLabel();
        // label.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.black));
        thingy.add(label);
        // the button to make things go
        JButton button = new JButton("click me");
        button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
          @Override
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            //change layout
            panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
            //panel.doLayout();
            panel.revalidate();
            SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
              @Override
              public void run() {
                //get image
                BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(panel.getPreferredSize().width,
                    panel.getPreferredSize().height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
                Graphics2D g = image.createGraphics();
                panel.paintComponents(g);
                g.dispose();
                //set icon of jlabel
                label.setIcon(new ImageIcon(image));
                //change back
                panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
                //panel.doLayout();
                panel.revalidate();
        // the frame
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setSize(400, 200);
        frame.setLocation(100, 100);
        frame.getContentPane().add(panel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        frame.getContentPane().add(thingy, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        frame.getContentPane().add(button, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
        frame.setVisible(true);
}db
edit I prefer this:import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.swing.*;
public class LayoutAndPaint {
JPanel panel;
JLabel label;
public static void main(String[] args) {
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        new LayoutAndPaint().makeUI();
public void makeUI() {
    JButton one = new JButton("One");
    JButton two = new JButton("Two");
    JButton three = new JButton("Three");
    one.setEnabled(false);
    two.setEnabled(false);
    three.setEnabled(false);
    panel = new JPanel();
    panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
    panel.add(one);
    panel.add(two);
    panel.add(three);
    label = new JLabel();
    JButton button = new JButton("Click");
    button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      @Override
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        layoutAndPaint();
    JFrame frame = new JFrame();
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.setSize(400, 400);
    frame.add(panel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
    frame.add(label, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    frame.add(button, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    frame.setVisible(true);
private void layoutAndPaint() {
    panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
    panel.revalidate();
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(panel.getPreferredSize().width,
            panel.getPreferredSize().height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        Graphics g = image.createGraphics();
        panel.paintComponents(g);
        g.dispose();
        label.setIcon(new ImageIcon(image));
        panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
        panel.revalidate();
}db
Edited by: DarrylBurke

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