Tiny Problem with JFrame

Hi
I am writing a simple program in java which is simply:
an panel with one button on it, when you drag the mouse over the panel, the button should follow the mouse ( it is very simple ), the program is working fine, but when I minimize the window or maximize it, the button jumps back to its original location ?
may I know why this is happening?
and how to solve it?

Best Regards.

this is the code:

Code:

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import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionListener;
import javax.swing.*;

public class MoveButtons extends JFrame{
    private JButton move=new JButton("move");
    JPanel panel=new JPanel();
// a listener is added to the panel, when the mouse is dragged over the panel the button "move" is set to to location of the mouse the problem is that when I minimize the window and restore it, the button "move" jump to its original location  this problem occurs also when I maximize the window

    public MoveButtons(){
        panel.add(move);
        panel.addMouseMotionListener(new MouseMotionListener() {
            public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
                move.setLocation(e.getX(),e.getY());
            }
            public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {

            }
        });
        add(panel);
        setSize(500,500);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setAlwaysOnTop(true);
        setVisible(true);
    }
    public static void main(String [] args){
        new MoveButtons();
    }

}

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Best of luck, and again, welcome!

Your problem is that your JPanel, panel is being created with a default layout of FlowLayout (as all JPanels do), and whenever you resize this JPanel, its layout manager is being told to re-layout all components held by it. To fix this, set the JPanel to have a null layout via:

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panel.setLayout(null);

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If you do this, please note that you are fully responsible for setting the size and initial position of all components held by this container, namely you will need to set the JButton's size and location. To set the JButton to the size that Swing thinks is preferred for it, you can simply do this:

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move.setSize(move.getPreferredSize());

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I'll leave it to you to figure out how to set move's initial position.

Much luck!

Thank you very very much, I am so grateful and I will use the code tag from now on,
and again thank you very much