Question

JButton and JLabel disappears when adding custom background. I don’t see any problems in my program, but maybe you guys find an solution! I think it’s only a little thing I forgot, but I can’t figure it out.

Here’s the code:

GameWindow.java:

setContentPane(new StartImagePanel(RollrackLogo));
out.println("adding JLWelcome");
JLWelcome.setText("Welcome to Rollrack, " + namewindow.name);
add(JLWelcome);
JLWelcome.setVisible(true);
out.println("JLWelcome added");
out.println("adding JBRandom");
JBRandom.setText("Random");
add(JBRandom);
JBRandom.setVisible(true);
out.println("added JBRandom");

The background appears perfect, but not the JButton and JLabel!

Code to the StartImagePanel.java:

public class StartImagePanel extends JComponent{
    private Image image;
    public StartImagePanel(Image image) {
        this.image = image;
    }
    @Override
    protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, null);
    }
}

Answer 1

Your button and label are added to your GameWindow frame while they should be added to its contentPane, setContentPane(new StartImagePanel(RollrackLogo)); instead. That’s why they are not showing, they are added to the frame.

Make a variable of the StartImagePanel and add the button and label to it and they should show up.

StartImagePanel contentPanel = new StartImagePanel(RollrackLogo);
setContentPane(contentPanel);

...

out.println("adding JLWelcome");
JLWelcome.setText("Welcome to Rollrack, " + namewindow.name);
contentPanel.add(JLWelcome);
JLWelcome.setVisible(true);
out.println("JLWelcome added");
out.println("adding JBRandom");
JBRandom.setText("Random");
contentPanel.add(JBRandom);
JBRandom.setVisible(true);
out.println("added JBRandom");

Answer dispute

The claims in the first paragraph are plain wrong. Here is source that proves it.

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;

public class AddToCustomContentPane {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Runnable r = new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                // the GUI as seen by the user (without frame)
                JPanel gui = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
                gui.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(2, 3, 2, 3));
                gui.setBackground(Color.RED);

                JFrame f = new JFrame("Demo");
                f.setContentPane(gui);

                // Acid test.  Can we add buttons direct to the frame?
                f.add(new JButton("Button 1"));
                f.add(new JButton("Button 2"));

                // Ensures JVM closes after frame(s) closed and
                // all non-daemon threads are finished
                f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
                // See http://stackoverflow.com/a/7143398/418556 for demo.
                f.setLocationByPlatform(true);

                // ensures the frame is the minimum size it needs to be
                // in order display the components within it
                f.pack();
                // should be done last, to avoid flickering, moving,
                // resizing artifacts.
                f.setVisible(true);
            }
        };
        // Swing GUIs should be created and updated on the EDT
        // http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/initial.html
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(r);
    }
}

Edit after the custom panel code was given

Here’s a snippet that works to show both button and label on a black image background, I removed that was not needed (listeners).

public static void main(String[] v) {

class StartImagePanel extends JPanel {
  private Image image;
  public StartImagePanel(Image image) {
      this.image = image;
  }
  @Override
  protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
    g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, null);
  }
}

class GameWindow extends JFrame{
  public GameWindow() {
    BufferedImage RollrackLogo;
    RollrackLogo = new BufferedImage(400,200,BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
    final JButton JBRandom = new JButton();
    final JLabel JLWelcome = new JLabel();
    setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    StartImagePanel panel = new StartImagePanel(RollrackLogo);
    setContentPane(panel);
    setExtendedState(MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
    setVisible(true);
    JLWelcome.setText("Welcome to Rollrack");
    panel.add(JLWelcome);
    JLWelcome.setVisible(true);
    JBRandom.setText("Random");
    panel.add(JBRandom);
    JBRandom.setVisible(true);
  }
}

GameWindow window = new GameWindow();
window.pack();
window.setVisible(true);
}