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I wish to have an internal (non window) dialog to ask for member input. I would like the dialog to be placed centrally on an existing JPanel. I have looked at layeredpanes and these seem unusable due to only having a single layout manager (or no layout manager) across all the panes. I guess I could try to override JLayeredPane and provide a custom layout but this seems extreme. Glass panes don't seem to be appropriate either. How can this be done? Is there no usable concept of z-indexes in Swing? EDIT The reason Layered Panes weren't appropriate was due to the lack of a layout manager per

I have a formatting question for my Java swing application. It should be fairly straightforward, but I am having difficulty finding any aid (Every topic seems to be regarding removing any default padding in JPanel). The text in my various JPanels hug the sides and top, touching the colored borders: how can I add padding? Thank you. Julien Vermillard Set an EmptyBorder around your JPanel . Example: JPanel p =new JPanel(); p.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(10, 10, 10, 10)); When you need padding inside the JPanel generally you add padding with the layout manager you are using. There are cases that you

I'm fairly new to Java Swing and I'm running into a few problems. As a side question, when making a fairly large Java Swing Application, what is the best way to split up code? In my case I want to have an application that has a layout just as Microsoft Word where there is a JToolBar filled with buttons and a main JPanel where changes are made based on the buttons pressed in the Tool Bar. So as shown in the code below, I have a JFrame and I call the MainPanel class in order to create a panel and add a ToolBar with a button. When the button is pressed it adds a button to the panel. The problem

I have a class that extends JFrame, and it has a BorderLayout. It has two private instance variables of type JPanel. They represent panels of buttons and are called flipButton and confidenceButtons. When you click on the button, the panel of buttons is replaced by the other panel of buttons. That is, if you click on a button in flipButton, flipButton is replaced by confidenceButtons. I tried to do it like this: private class FlipListener implements ActionListener{ public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){ remove(flipButton); add(confidenceButtons,BorderLayout.SOUTH); validate(); ... } }

I'm trying to create a hangman game and so far it's coming along GREAT, but the layout design just doesn't seem to fall into place! The alphabet is supposed to end up in a FlowLayout order on top of the Hangman picture with the buttons "Restart", "Help" "Add New Word" and "Exit" at the bottom! What am I doing wrong? import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import java.io.*; public class Hangman extends JFrame { int i = 0; static JPanel panel; static JPanel panel2; static JPanel panel3; public Hangman() { JButton[] buttons = new JButton[26]; panel = new JPanel(new