panels, panels, and more panels

**yankeetooter7** · 06-11-2012, 04:30 AM

Hey all:

How do you put a panel (or panels) within another panel?

yankeetooter7

**Norm** · 06-11-2012, 04:48 AM

You use the add() method to add components to containers.

**pbrockway2** · 06-11-2012, 04:49 AM

Are you talking about JPanel?

If so, use the add() method. There's a discussion panels in Oracle's Tutorial.

(Moved to the AWT/Swing forum)

**yankeetooter7** · 06-11-2012, 05:08 AM

Thanks for the link...

yankeetooter7

**yankeetooter7** · 06-11-2012, 05:36 AM

Yes, but I am having trouble figuring out where I add the panels...in the driver class, in the constructor...*shrugs*. I think I am giving up for the night...too tired.

**pbrockway2** · 06-11-2012, 05:38 AM

You're welcome.

Depending on your experience the API docs can be as clear as mud... Oracle's Tutorial is a very valuable resource but, again, the page I linked to doesn't have a lot of overall "context" so you might have to look around the surrounding pages.

One common mistake is to overlook the importance of panel layouts. In Java (or rather awt/swing) panels and layouts are pretty much a package detail. So a more accurate answer to your quesion would be: set the layout, then add(). Getting the hang of which layout to use and when involves some tinkering.

If you get stuck, post what you've come up with and describe what goes wrong.

**pbrockway2** · 06-11-2012, 05:52 AM

Probably the panel's constructor. But, sans code, that's a guess.

Read the links and sleep on it. Between the muses and some playing about with code as they might suggest you'll come up with something. Then it's just amatter of making it work...

**pbrockway2** · 06-11-2012, 05:52 AM

Probably the panel's constructor. But, sans code, that's a guess.

Read the links and sleep on it. Between the muses and some playing about with code as they might suggest you'll come up with something. Then it's just amatter of making it work...