Adding a button overwriting a paintComponent

[Tinker]

Hello, I am a first newcomer here.

I want to ask you a question.

I have a button that has an icon and an ActionListener. I want to add it to a panel GridLayout(1,1), using paintComponent cause I want to add other lines, simple move animation and such, inside also.

I use paintComponent, I add lines, rectangles, oval but when I add the button it takes up all the space and overwrites all the panel. I want to be able to animate the button itself, use its listener and in general co-exists in the panel.

I pass up my code.

public class MainPanel extends JPanel {
	
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	protected final ImageIcon redDoorIcon = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("/images/RedDoor.png"));
	private JButton button;
	
	public MainPanel(Controller controller) {
		
		setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 1));
		button = new JButton("press me");
//		button.setVisible(false);
		add(button);
		button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
			
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
				
				System.out.println("*");
				
			}
		});
		
	}

	public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
		
		super.paintComponent(g);
		
		g.drawLine(10, 10, 30, 10);
		redDoorIcon.paintIcon(this, g, 50, 50);
//		add(button);
		
	}
	
}

The main is irrelavant as it just creates the frame and adds the panel inside.

If I don't add the button, the panel is the way I want. But I can't add it just like the other, giving it a x,j (width,height).

How can this be done?

Thank you.

[DarrylBurke]

Moved from New to Java.

db

[DarrylBurke]

Lesson: Laying Out Components Within a Container (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing)

db

[Tinker]

Yes db, I made it through the links.

Although I was looking at the layout managers and overwrite paint/paintComponent, how could I figure that if I don't put a LayoutManager at all I could do exactly what I want? I'd never imagine or find it out, thanks a lot for showing that to me.

For anyone else interested, check db's link and especially

Doing Without a Layout Manager (Absolute Positioning) (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Laying Out Components Within a Container)