Popup not in specified Component, but in main JFrame

Question

Hi,
how do I make a popup appear inside the Component "owner" that is
given as parameter to the show method?
I have a JFrame containing a JPanel component in a GridBagLayout.
The JPanel has a MouseListener, causing "MousePressed" to show a
popup with a small textfield at the mouse position inside JPanel.
The popup is called as follows:
show(e.getComponent(), JTextField, e.getX(), e.getY());
I also tried giving explicit parameters: show(JPanel, JTextField, 10, 10);
However, the popup is not positioned inside the JPanel, but in the JFrame that
contains the JPanel.
Thanks for any help!
Regards,
Elke

Answer 1

Sorry, my fault: I confused the constructor with the method.
Below is a test code I made.
Thanks again,
Elke
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import javax.swing.*;
public class PopupTest extends JFrame {
private JPanel jContentPane = null;
private JTabbedPane jTabbedPane = null;
private JPanel jpTab1 = null;
private JPanel jPanel = null;
private Popup mousePopup = null;
public static void main(String[] args) {
PopupTest myPopup = new PopupTest();
myPopup.show();
public PopupTest() {
super();
this.setContentPane(getJContentPane());
this.setSize(300,300);
private JPanel getJContentPane() {
if(jContentPane == null) {
jContentPane = new javax.swing.JPanel();
jContentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
jContentPane.add(getJTabbedPane(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
return jContentPane;
private JTabbedPane getJTabbedPane() {
if (jTabbedPane == null) {
jTabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
jTabbedPane.addTab("Tab1", null, getJpTab1(), null);
return jTabbedPane;
private JPanel getJpTab1() {
if (jpTab1 == null) {
jpTab1 = new JPanel();
jpTab1.setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
jpTab1.setName("Tab1");
GridBagConstraints grid1 = new GridBagConstraints();
grid1.gridx = 0;
grid1.gridy = 0;
jpTab1.add(getJPanel(), grid1);
return jpTab1;
private JPanel getJPanel() {
if (jPanel == null) {
jPanel = new JPanel() {
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
for(int h = 0;h<100;h++)
for(int w = 0;w<100;w++)
g.setColor(Color.blue);
g.drawRect(w, h, 1, 1);
jPanel.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() {
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
if (e.isPopupTrigger()) {
int x = e.getX();
int y = e.getY();
JLabel mouseData = new JLabel("["+x+","+y+"]");
// create popup at mouse position inside the JPanel:
mousePopup = PopupFactory.getSharedInstance().getPopup(e.getComponent(), mouseData, x, y);
// problem: popup not at mouse position inside JPanel, but at position x,y in the JFrame.
// Also tried the following, but that didn't work either:
//mousePopup = PopupFactory.getSharedInstance().getPopup(jPanel, mouseData, x, y);
// Why is the "owner" parameter in the popup constructor ignored?
mousePopup.show();
jPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100,100));
return jPanel;
}