Setting up scrolling for a component which has g2d features...

Question

Hi, everyone, Im working on adding scrolling capablitlity to a component, as it currently exceeds the room I have given it. The problem is....
1) My scrollbar is always hidden under my g2d images... If I click on top of where the scroll bar should be, like crazy it appears piece by piece.
2) The scrollbar doesn't seem to be scrolling. BTW its on a regular panel (getContentPane()), is this a problem??
Well....here's the relevant code (the code for the component)
static class MyComponent extends JComponent {
JScrollBar scroll;
//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Component Stuff~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
          MyComponent() {
                    setBackground(Color.pink);
                    setBounds(0,0,500,500);
                    setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.pink,10));
                    scroll = new JScrollBar(JScrollBar.VERTICAL,0,20,0,100);
                    scroll.setBounds(484,0,16,500);
                    scroll.setVisible(true);
                    add(scroll);
                    System.out.println(scroll.isEnabled() + "" + scroll.isVisible() + scroll.getBounds());
                    setVisible(true);
Then in the main() function, I add it to the panel like so...
MyComponent mc = new MyComponent();
joe.getContentPane().add(mc);
Thanks a lot,
Mark

Answer 1

Ok, I tried making the panel....but this has led to some strange(er) problems...
Here's some info on my panels
JPanel something....is the panel holding buttons, and under a flowlayout i think
ContentPane, i dont know what it holds...
JScrollPane pane...this is hidden from view, unless I set the something JPanel to be hidden.
Why cant i just see them all at the same time? I made sure the JPanel something had opque set to false, and now i can see the contentPane....but where are my g2d objects (located on "something")
thanks...