Force immediate layout and paint in Swing

Question

I cannot seem to force a layout in Swing. I have a JComponent added to a JLayeredPane and I set a border on the JComponent. Then, I wa

Answer 1

This is super old, but I found a simple solution, which I'll show with a JPasswordField:

var pw = new JPasswordField();
...
pw.paint(pw.getGraphics()); // paints immediately