Adding more than one JPanel to my JFrame(North,South)

chdboy

I want to add two Jpanel on my tabbed pane ,one should be in south with buttons,and other should be in north where I have Text fields and Labels. My problem is that the buttons on container Jpanel is not showing in south. Here is the code:

public class Mainframe extends JFrame
{ /**
*
*/
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
JPanel jp1 = new JPanel();
JPanel container = new JPanel();
JFrame frame = new JFrame("TEST");
JButton button1 = new JButton("Button 1");
JButton button2 = new JButton("Button 2");
JButton button3 = new JButton("Button 3");
JButton button4 = new JButton("Button 4");
JButton button5 = new JButton("Button 5");
/**
* @param args
*/
private Mainframe()
{

	Container contentPane = getContentPane();
	container.setLayout(new FlowLayout());				
	BufferedImage myPicture = null;
	try
	{			
		myPicture = ImageIO.read(new File("FINAL.jpg"));
	} 
	catch (IOException e1)
	{
		
		e1.printStackTrace();
	}		
	
	JLabel lbl = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(myPicture));		
	container.add(lbl);
	container.add(button1);
	container.add(button2);
	container.add(button3);
	container.add(button4);
	container.add(button5);
	jp1.add(container,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
            frame.add(tabbedPane);
	tabbedPane.addTab("First Tab",jp1);	
frame.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(1500, 1210));

    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE\_ON\_CLOSE);
    frame.pack();
    frame.setResizable(true);
    frame.setVisible(true);

}
}

Lost User

It looks as though you have too many containers. Try simplifying your setup by adding one element at a time to see where it's going wrong. Start with the tab, then add a panel to the tab, then a single item to the panel etc.

Veni, vidi, abiit domum

chdboy

Here is how I see it can be simplified ,and still the problem exists.

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.Box;
import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.UIManager;

public class Mainframe extends JFrame
{ /**
*
*/
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
JPanel jp1 = new JPanel();
JPanel Firstpanel = new JPanel();
static JFrame frame = new JFrame("Create Company");
JButton button1 = new JButton("Button 1");
JButton button2 = new JButton("Button 2");
JButton button3 = new JButton("Button 3");
JButton button4 = new JButton("Button 4");
JButton button5 = new JButton("Button 5");
/**
* @param args
*/
private Mainframe()
{

	BufferedImage myPicture = null;
	try
	{			
		myPicture = ImageIO.read(new File("FINAL.jpg"));
	} 
	catch (IOException e1)
	{
		
		e1.printStackTrace();
	}		
	
	JLabel lbl = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(myPicture));		
	frame.add(tabbedPane);
	jp1.add(Firstpanel,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
	tabbedPane.addTab("New Employer",jp1);		
	Firstpanel.add(button1);
	Firstpanel.add(button2);
	Firstpanel.add(button3);
	
	}
public static void main(String\[\] args) 
{
	frame.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(1500, 1210));
    
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE\_ON\_CLOSE);
    frame.pack();
    frame.setResizable(true);
    frame.setVisible(true);
	new Mainframe();
	// TODO Auto-generated method stub

}

}

Shubhashish_Mandal

I didn't see any layout set against the JPanel jP1. see this http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/BorderLayout.html[^]

Regards Shubhashish

Lost User

You need to tell the panel to use a border layout like:

	jp1.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
	jp1.add(Firstpanel,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
	tabbedPane.addTab("New Employer",jp1);		
	Firstpanel.add(button1);
	Firstpanel.add(button2);
	Firstpanel.add(button3);

	jp1.add(Secondpanel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
	Secondpanel.add(button4);
	Secondpanel.add(button5);

Veni, vidi, abiit domum

chdboy

Thank you for your help :)

chdboy

Yes now I know my mistake,thank you :)