Question

I really can’t figure out why this JPanel “p” isn’t appearing?
I thought I coded it right for the JPanel p to be in the middle of the Jframe and should make the whole JFrame RED but it doesn’t seem to do that and the buttons and JPanel aren’t appearing. Sorry. I know I am probably stupid but please help. 😕
Here is the code.

package com.gorillalogic.henry;

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

import javax.swing.*;

public class Notepad {

    private JFrame f; // creates all GUI components
    private JPanel p;
    private JButton b1;

    public Notepad() {

        gui();
    }

    public void gui() {

        f = new JFrame("Notepad");
        p = new JPanel();

        b1 = new JButton("Quit");
        b1.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                System.exit(0);
            }
        });

        f.setSize(600, 400);
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.setVisible(true);

        p.setBackground(Color.RED);
        p.add(b1);

        f.add(p, BorderLayout.CENTER);

    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new Notepad();

    }

}

Thanks in advance. 🙂

Answer 1

p.setOpaque(true);

You need to do that.