JComponent

whosurpaddy

I have a problem with a JComponent object. basically i have a JComponent object already created & i need to put a couple of JPanels into the GUI beside it. dont know if im explaining myself very well here.

right what im asking is : id there a parent that will take both JComponent and JPanel or do i need to change the JComponent to something else to make it work. ive already tried changing it to JFrame, MainFrame etc but nothing seems to work.

i tryed using a JSplitPane but that dosent seem to want to take the JComponent. i was thinking of JRootPane or something similar

ciano

Im not really sure what you mean here. Can you clarify it a bit?

is there a parent that will take both JComponent and JPanel

Well JPanel extends JComponent, so Im a bit confused as to what you mean.

You could put your JComponent and your two JPanels in a JFrame, or even another JPanel.

CH

have a look at suns tutorials

Enygma

I often use http://www.javaalmanac.com for this type of question. It's got thousands of little code snippets.

whosurpaddy

thanks for the replies lads. turned out the prob was i wasnt laying the new panels out properly using NORTH, SOUTH etc. i was convinced i had the wrong container object. sorry if i confused anyone;)