TextField bounds not working?

Question

I'm trying to make a simple GUI, it's just in the opening stages here, but my problem is that when the program is run, and the window opens up, the textfield (keyTxt) is the full size of the window... and when I don't add keyTxt, the label's bounds are the full size of the window. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong here, but here's the code:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class KeyWin extends Frame implements ActionListener {   
     public KeyWin () {
          Dimension d = new Dimension(600, 600);
          setSize(d);
          Label keyLbl = new Label("Key:");
          Label actionLbl = new Label ("Action:");
          Label totalLbl = new Label ("Number of tricks:");
          Label setLbl = new Label ("Sets of");
          TextField keyTxt = new TextField ();
          TextField totalTxt = new TextField("####", 4);
          TextField setTxt = new TextField("##", 2);
          this.add(keyLbl);  //added before set bounds as part of troubleshooting.. no luck
          this.add(keyTxt);
          keyLbl.setBounds(5, 5, 8, 5);  //Setting the Bounds here
          keyTxt.setBounds(15, 5, 20, 5);
          setBackground(Color.gray);
          setTitle("Turning Aid - by Visser");
          setVisible(true);
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { //I know this won't work yet, have yet to learn closing actions.
          String arg = e.getActionCommand();
          if (arg.equals("Exit")) {
               this.dispose();
     public static void main (String args[]) { //main function
          KeyWin bleh = new KeyWin();
}It's probably a simple problem, but wherever I looked in the archives, everyone had done the same here, any help is appreciated :)
Thanks,
Visser

Answer 1

i love Color.gray.yeah, but you better watch out because Color.gray might become deprecated soon, since it's constant, it should be Color.GRAY (String DISCLAIMER = "and if i'm not mistaking again";, then in 1.4 it allready is also GRAY)
btw: DISCLAIMER + if one sets layout null, then by default components will be layed out from the position 0,0 and with their preferred sizes, if you have on top of the others a lable with no text and with enormous size, then it appears as you had no components...