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Netbeans isn't show my gui project with java [duplicate]

I am trying to get a JInternalFrame to appear on my screen when a button is pressed, a pop up effect basically. However when the button is pressed the JInternalFrame does not appear on the screen. Also when I resize the screen all the elements expand with it, I am wondering if there is a way to get a pop up window to appear on the screen and keep the layout manager I have now still in place so that when the window is resized the elements are also resized with it
public class testing2 implements ActionListener {
JButton buttonAppear = new JButton();
JLayeredPane LayeredPane = new JLayeredPane();
public static void main(String[] args) {
new testing2();
}
public testing2() {
LayeredPane = new JLayeredPane();
BorderLayout borderlayoutpane = new BorderLayout();
LayeredPane.setLayout(borderlayoutpane);
JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
BorderLayout borderlayout = new BorderLayout();
mainPanel.setLayout(borderlayout);
JButton button = new JButton("Button");
mainPanel.add(button, "Center");
buttonAppear = new JButton("Panel Appear");
buttonAppear.addActionListener(this);
mainPanel.add(buttonAppear, "South");
LayeredPane.add(mainPanel, 2);
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
frame.add(LayeredPane);
frame.setSize(400, 400);
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if(e.getSource() == buttonAppear)
{
JInternalFrame inFrame = new JInternalFrame("Internal Frame", true, true, true, true);
inFrame.setBounds(10, 10, 200, 200);
inFrame.setVisible(true);
LayeredPane.add(inFrame, 1);
}
}
}

a pop up effect basically.
Then use a JDialog. A JInternalFrame was designed to work with a JDesktopPane.
mainPanel.add(button, "Center");
Don't use hardcode strings for the constraint. Use the field provided by the API:
mainPanel.add(button, BorderLayout.CENTER);
Also, follow Java naming conventions. Variable names should NOT start with an upper case character. Be consistent.
Don't know if it will make a difference but components with a higher layer number are painted on top of components with a lower index. So I would guess the panel (which is opaque) would just paint over top of the internal frame. Read the section from the Swing tutorial on How to Use Layered Panes. Also read the section on How to Use Root Panes to find the special variable for "popups" on a layered pane.

How to fix GUI components "leaving" their panels or taking up more space they they are supposed to?

I am trying to make a GUI for a game. I am very new to Java, especially GUI. The code below is a snippet which is supposed to make a JFrame with nested panels for organization. It works until I add buttons to the button panel. They end up on the boardBckg panel. If I manage to place them on the correct panel the JTextField disappears or it takes up the entire screen. I have been working on this part of the code for the past two days and I could really use GUI tips.
private void makeWindow()
{
boardPanel = new JPanel();
boardBckg = new JPanel();
menuPanel = new JPanel();
save = new JButton("Save");
save.setSize(Buttons);
load = new JButton("Load");
load.setSize(Buttons);
replay = new JButton ("Replay");
replay.setSize(Buttons);
words = new JTextField();
frame = new JFrame(title);
boardPanel.setSize(PANEL);
boardPanel.setMaximumSize(MAX);
boardPanel.setMinimumSize(MIN);
boardPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(m,n));
boardBckg.setSize(1000, 1000);
boardBckg.setBackground(Color.cyan);
boardBckg.add(boardPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
frame.setSize(1500, 1000);
frame.setResizable(false);
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
BoxLayout vertical = new BoxLayout(menuPanel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS);
menuPanel.setSize(500, 1000);
menuPanel.setBackground(Color.blue);
menuPanel.setLayout(vertical);
frame.add(boardBckg);
frame.add(menuPanel);
JPanel iGiveUp = new JPanel();
iGiveUp.setBackground(Color.black);
JPanel buttons = new JPanel();
buttons.setBackground(Color.darkGray);
buttons.add(save);
buttons.add(load);
buttons.add(replay);
menuPanel.add(iGiveUp);
menuPanel.add(buttons);
iGiveUp.add(words);

boardBckg.add(boardPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
The default layout of a JPanel is the FlowLayout. You can't just specify a BorderLayout constraint when you add the component to the panel.
frame.add(boardBckg);
frame.add(menuPanel);
The default layout for (the content pane of) the frame is a BorderLayout. If you don't specify a constraint, then the component is added to the BorderLayout.CENTER. Problem is only one component can be added to the CENTER so you only see the last comoponent added.
frame.setVisible(true);
Component should be added to the frame BEFORE the frame is packed and made visible. So the above statement should be the last statement in your constructor.
I have no ideas what your desired layout is but you need to start with something simple and take advantage of the default BorderLayout of the frame.
So your basic logic might be something like:
JPanel menuPanel = new JPanel()
menuPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(menuPanel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
menuPanel.add(...);
menuPanel.add(...);
JPanel center = new JPanel();
center.setLayout(...);
center.setBackground( Color.BLUE );
center.add(...);
frame.add(menuPanel, BorderLayout.LINE_START);
frame.add(center, BorderLayout.CENTER);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible( true );
The main point is to break the panels down logically and add them to the frame one at a time. So first get the menu and its child components added to the frame is the correct position. Then you can add the CENTER panel and its child components.

Java Swing GUI with text and picture pane [duplicate]

This is for Tetris. The glass (blue) is left, and the controls (red panel) are situated in the right. In other words, now I would like just to have a frame divided into two parts: left (wider) part is blue, right part is red. Nothing more. But I seem to fail to do this.
So, my logic is: let the frame have FlowLayout. Then I add two panels which means that they are expected to be put in a row.
I prepared this:
public class GlassView extends JFrame{
public GlassView(){
this.setSize(600, 750);
this.setVisible(true);
this.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
this.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JPanel glass = new JPanel();
glass.setLayout(new BoxLayout(glass, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
glass.setSize(450, 750);
glass.setBackground(Color.BLUE);
glass.setVisible(true);
this.add(glass);
JPanel controls = new JPanel();
controls.setLayout(new BoxLayout(controls, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
controls.setSize(150, 750);
controls.setBackground(Color.RED);
controls.setVisible(true);
this.add(controls);
}
}
But only a gray frame is visible on the screen. Could you help me understand why?

As Amir said you want to use a JSplitPane for this. I have added this in your code. Have a look at this.
/**
* #param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
GlassView view = new GlassView();
}
private static class GlassView extends JFrame {
private int width = 600;
private int height = 750;
public GlassView() {
this.setSize(width, height);
this.setVisible(true);
this.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JPanel glass = new JPanel();
glass.setSize(450, 750);
glass.setBackground(Color.BLUE);
glass.setVisible(true);
JPanel controls = new JPanel();
controls.setSize(150, 750);
controls.setBackground(Color.RED);
controls.setVisible(true);
JSplitPane splitPane = new JSplitPane();
splitPane.setSize(width, height);
splitPane.setDividerSize(0);
splitPane.setDividerLocation(150);
splitPane.setOrientation(JSplitPane.HORIZONTAL_SPLIT);
splitPane.setLeftComponent(controls);
splitPane.setRightComponent(glass);
this.add(splitPane);
}
}

How to divide a frame into two parts
...
I would like just to have a frame divided into two parts: left (wider) part is blue, right part is red.
You want to use is a SplitPane.

Java: Extra space in AbsoluteLayout

Is it possible to have some extra space around the edges of a JFrame that uses AbsoluteLayout? When I have a button as the downwardsmost component on the JFrame, it gets positioned right up against the bottom edge of the JFrame window, and it looks bad. I would like to know if there's a way to add a little extra space between components and the edge of the JFrame while using AbsoluteLayout.

Suggestions:
When you add a component to a JFrame, you're actually adding it to the JFrame's contentPane. To give the contentPane a "buffer" border, consider giving it an EmptyBorder(...) with the parameters being int constants for the amount of border desired around the component.
Avoid using "absolute" layouts for anything, and especially for placing components at easy to place locations for the layout managers, such as at the bottom of the GUI.
For example, note in the GUI created in the code below how the center and bottom JPanel's don't go out to the edge of the GUI because of the empty border:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import javax.swing.*;
public class ButtonAtBottom {
private static void createAndShowGui() {
JPanel bottomPanel = new JPanel();
bottomPanel.add(new JButton("Bottom Button"));
bottomPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Bottom Panel"));
JPanel centerPanel = new JPanel();
centerPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Center Panel"));
JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
mainPanel.add(centerPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
mainPanel.add(bottomPanel, BorderLayout.PAGE_END);
// **** here I add the border to the mainPanel which I'll
// make into the contentPane
int eb = 25;
mainPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(eb, eb, eb, eb));
// don't set the preferredSize per Kleopatra, but am doing it
// here simply to make code shorter for this sscce
mainPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(500, 400));
JFrame frame = new JFrame("ButtonAtBottom");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setContentPane(mainPanel);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationByPlatform(true);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
createAndShowGui();
}
});
}
}

You can use Box.createRigidArea(dimensions) to create an empty space that you can add below the button.

Set an empty border on your content panel where SIZE is the amount of padding you want.
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
JPanel panel = new JPanel(null);
panel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(SIZE,SIZE,SIZE,SIZE);
frame.setContentPane(panel);
//The rest
The arguments are for top, left, bottom and right padding so if you want different paddings on each edge, you can set it accordingly.

Overlay panel (above another)

I am learning how to use Swing and found myself quite difficult task.
What I am trying to accomplish: I want to have panel (call it menu panel) on the left side (let's say 100px width) and the second panel (call it content panel), which takes the rest of available place.
In menu panel there are 3 buttons. When I press on of them, to the right side of menu panel (over content panel) second menu panel (submenu) should appear (and it should start in the middle of button which was pressed).
It may be hard to understand, so I've created simple draft:
I tried JLayeredPane but there were problems with resizing window (elements in Layered Pane didn't resize).

JLayeredPane miss implementations for LayoutManager, you have to setPreferredSize or setBounds manually for sizing/place JComponents,
there is one possible workaround you can add ComponentListener to the JFrame, then on componentResized(ComponentEvent e) you can resize/replace JComponent(s) to the desired Bounds
for example
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
public class LayeredPaneWithOverlap {
private JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea(2, 10);
private JPanel textPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
private JTable table = new JTable(30, 5);
private JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(table);
private JLayeredPane layer = new JLayeredPane();
private JFrame frame = new JFrame("Frame with resiziable JLayeredPane");
public void makeUI() {
textArea.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.DARK_GRAY));
textArea.setText("Frame with resiziable JLayeredPane");
textPanel.setOpaque(false);
textPanel.add(textArea, BorderLayout.NORTH);
Font font = textArea.getFont();
FontMetrics fontMetrics = textArea.getFontMetrics(font);
int h = fontMetrics.getHeight() + frame.getInsets().top +
textPanel.getInsets().top + textArea.getInsets().top
+ textArea.getInsets().bottom;
scroll.setBounds(0, h, 400, 300);
layer.add(textPanel, new Integer(2));
layer.add(scroll, new Integer(1));
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setSize(600, 400);
frame.addComponentListener(new ComponentAdapter() {
#Override
public void componentResized(ComponentEvent e) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
resizeAll();
}
});
}
});
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.add(layer);
resizeAll();
frame.setVisible(true);
}
void resizeAll() {
Insets insets = frame.getInsets();
int w = frame.getWidth() - insets.left - insets.right;
int h = frame.getHeight() - insets.top - insets.bottom;
textPanel.setSize(w, h);
scroll.setSize(w, h - scroll.getY());
layer.revalidate();
layer.repaint();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
new LayeredPaneWithOverlap().makeUI();
}
});
}
}

You can set a layoutmanager for the layered pane, javax.swing.OverlayLayout uses the full available space and allows resizing.
JLayeredPane layer = new JLayeredPane();
layer.setLayout(new OverlayLayout(layer));
You probably don't want the submenu to occupy the fullspace. To avoid it you can override its get…size-methods. Or you can add a second LayeredPane (for it's transperancy and it's layoutmanager), set a normal BoxLayout and use a spacer.
JPanel normalContents = new JPanel();
layer.add(normalContents, JLayeredPane.DEFAULT_LAYER);
JLayeredPane subMenuAuxiliaryLayer = new JLayeredPane()
subMenuAuxiliaryLayer.setLayout(new BoxLayout(subMenuAuxiliaryLayer, BoxLayout.LINE_AXIS));
layer.add(subMenuAuxiliaryLayer, JLayeredPane.PALETTE_LAYER);
JPanel submenuContents = new JPanel();
subMenuAuliliaryLayer.add(submenuContents);
subMenuAuxiliaryLayer.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());

contentPanel.setLayout(null); // Absolute positioning of children.
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
final JButton btn = (JButton) evt.getSource();
final int buttonY = btn.getY(); // Must be final for usage in new Runnable object.
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() { // Return fast from event handling.
#Override
public void run() {
JPanel child = new JPanel();
child.setBackground(Color.RED); // So we'll see it.
child.setBounds(0, buttonY, 100, 300);
contentPanel.removeAll(); // Clear content panel of prior additions.
contentPanel.add(child); // Add a new panel.
contentPanel.repaint(10L);
}
});
}

The JLayeredPane works by defualt with no Layout manager, which means that you are using absolute positioning and no resizing. You could add a resize listener and adjust positions and size of inner components from code, as you see fit.
If you don't want to do this from code, you will need a layout manager, nothing fancy, just something to fill the container as it resizes. But here's the thing... if you add a layout manager, it will layout the components as if they are all in one layer, but most layout managers don't overlap their children so they are useless. The only one you could use is the OverlayLayout - it can also resize children. But using an OverlayLayout with JLayeredPane is overkill. You can just use OverlayLayout with a JPanel. So, yes, JLayeredPane is kind of useless. I recommend using a JPanel with an OverlayLayout instead.
Here is how to set things up so that you can have great control over almost any overlapping UI scenario out there: Using a JPanel with an OverlayLayout, have a separate transparent JPanel for each layer. In this way you can combine various LayoutManagers on different layers, by setting a diferent layout manager for each pane, including absolute positioning if necessary. Then add your visible components inside the panels representing the layers. Don't add them directly to the OverlayLayout panel. Just make sure that all of the JPanels you are using as layers have setAlignmentX and Y to center (0.5f) so that they fill the entire OverlayLayout panel as it resizes.