Constructor call not calling

[Singing Boyo]

I am trying to call a constructor for a self-designed class. However, when I use new TextAreaUI, nothing happens. The println statement at the beginning of the constructor does not work either... any ideas?

TextAreaUI class:

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

public class TextAreaUI extends JPanel implements ActionListener{

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	private ScrollableJTextArea allMessages = new ScrollableJTextArea(), newMessages = new ScrollableJTextArea(); 
	private JButton send = new JButton("Send");
	
	public TextAreaUI(){
		[color=red][b]System.out.println("TAUI construct");[/b]//Never prints[/color]
		setLayout(new SpringLayout());
		System.out.println("Layout");
		JPanel bottomPanel = new JPanel(new SpringLayout());
		bottomPanel.add(newMessages);
		bottomPanel.add(send);
		System.out.println("BPanel");
		SpringUtilities.makeCompactGrid(bottomPanel, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0);
		JPanel topPanel = new JPanel();
		topPanel.add(allMessages);
		add(topPanel);
		add(bottomPanel);
		System.out.println("Added");
		SpringUtilities.makeCompactGrid(this, 2, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4);
	}
	
	@Override
	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
		if(e.getSource() == send){
			if(newMessages.getText().length() != 0){
				allMessages.append("\n\n"+newMessages.getText());
				newMessages.setText("");
			}
		}
	}
}

The class calling the constructor

import javax.swing.*;

import graphics.images.Movement;

public class MainUI extends JFrame{

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	private JPanel panel = new JPanel();
	public MainUI(){
		System.out.println("Checkpoint: Constructor call");
		TextAreaUI txtPanel;
		System.out.println("Checkpoint: txtPanel allocated");
		[b][color=red]txtPanel = new TextAreaUI();[/color][/b][color=red]//BLOCKS[/color]
		System.out.println("Checkpoint: txtPanel initialized");
		panel.add(txtPanel);
		System.out.println("Checkpoint: panel setup");
		setContentPane(panel);
		pack();
		setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		setVisible(true);
	}
	public static void main(String[] args){
		new MainUI();
	}
}

Seems to be a very strange problem. Never seen anything like this.

[saifuddin.merchant]

How does your TextAreaUI code compile? It does not import the SpringUtilities (org.concord.swing.SpringUtilities right?) class in the code?
Also you could check if all the necessary files are on your class path. You don't seem to be using any packages ...

[Singing Boyo]

Lol... picked up the SpringUtilities code online, its in the same package (never even realized it was actually in a package anywhere). The entire code is in the graphics package of my project, so I don't need imports.

It's not an error... the constructor is just not being called.

EDIT: and the package you mentioned is not included in the standard JDK in any case

[masijade]

Run your code through a debugger. If I remember right, this line

	private ScrollableJTextArea allMessages = new ScrollableJTextArea(), newMessages = new ScrollableJTextArea();

will be run before your println, but as part of the "new TextAreaUI()" call, and I can only assume that ScrollableJTextArea is also one of your classes, and I have no idea what might be happening in that constructor.

[hardwired]

I just ran this

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

public class ConstructorTest extends JFrame{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private JPanel panel = new JPanel();

    public ConstructorTest(){
        System.out.println("Checkpoint: Constructor call");
        TextAreaUI txtPanel;
        System.out.println("Checkpoint: txtPanel allocated");
        txtPanel = new TextAreaUI();//BLOCKS
        System.out.println("Checkpoint: txtPanel initialized");
        panel.add(txtPanel);
        System.out.println("Checkpoint: panel setup");
        setContentPane(panel);
        pack();
        setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args){
        new ConstructorTest();
    }
}

class TextAreaUI extends JPanel implements ActionListener{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private ScrollableJTextArea
        allMessages = new ScrollableJTextArea("all messages"),
        newMessages = new ScrollableJTextArea("new messages");
    private JButton send = new JButton("Send");

    public TextAreaUI(){
        System.out.println("TAUI construct");//Never prints
        setLayout(new SpringLayout());
        System.out.println("Layout");
        JPanel bottomPanel = new JPanel(new SpringLayout());
        bottomPanel.add(newMessages);
        bottomPanel.add(send);
        System.out.println("BPanel");
        SpringUtilities.makeCompactGrid(bottomPanel, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0);
        JPanel topPanel = new JPanel();
        topPanel.add(allMessages);
        add(topPanel);
        add(bottomPanel);
        System.out.println("Added");
        SpringUtilities.makeCompactGrid(this, 2, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4);
    }

    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        if(e.getSource() == send){
            if(newMessages.getText().length() != 0){
                allMessages.append("\n\n"+newMessages.getText());
                newMessages.setText("");
            }
        }
    }

    private class ScrollableJTextArea extends JTextArea {
        public ScrollableJTextArea(String text) {
            super(text);
        }

        public ScrollableJTextArea() {}
    }
}

and got this in the console

C:\jexp>java ConstructorTest
Checkpoint: Constructor call
Checkpoint: txtPanel allocated
TAUI construct
Layout
BPanel
Added
Checkpoint: txtPanel initialized
Checkpoint: panel setup

and a small gui appeared with three components in it.

[Singing Boyo]

Fixed it. The problem was in the ScrollableJTextArea constructor... I had a Runnable that did checking for conditions(was mistaking a Runnable for Thread).