Question

I am currently creating a GUI for a game. I am currently loading an image using JLabel onto my JPanel, I was wondering whether it would be possible to add buttons on various parts of the image e.g. (5,7) and (12,12).

Answer 1

If you wish to have JButtons appear over your image, a better approach would be to override the paintComponent of the JPanel and use drawImage to draw the image similar to this example . This will allow you to add components to the container.

Absolute positioning(null layout) is generally frowned upon for setting component locations, however. This DragLayout should be a better substitute taking care of component sizing.

DragLayout was designed to replace a null layout. It will respect the location of a component. By default it will use the preferred size of the component to determines its size. Finally, it will automatically calculate the preferred size of the Container.