Question

So I am faced with a situation that I have been stuck with for an hour.

Here’s my situation: I want to add an image that says “Life:” separate from my game canvas very much like this game Legend of Zelda for the NES.

Problem is: my code still only shows my game canvas.

public class Game extends Canvas {

           private Game(){

           JFrame container = new JFrame("Arcade Shooter Clone");

            panel = (JPanel)container.getContentPane();
            panel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());

            panel.add(this,BorderLayout.CENTER);

            ShipLifeTitle shipLifeTitle = new ShipLifeTitle();
            panel.add(shipLifeTitle,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
           }

    }

    public class ShipLifeTitle extends Sprite {

        private Image image;

        public ShipLifeTitle()
        {
            try
            {
                image = ImageIO.read(new File("src/Ship/shipLifeTitle.PNG"));


            }
            catch(IOException e)
            {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

        }

        @Override
        public void draw(Graphics g) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            g.drawImage(image, 200, 200, null);
        }


    }

    public class Sprite extends Component implements GameComponent {

        public Vector2D position;
        public Vector2D velocity;

        @Override
        public void update(long milliseconds) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void draw(Graphics g) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }



    }

Answer 1

In you ShipLifeTitle panel, you need to override its getPreferredSize method.

public class ShipLifeTitle extends Sprite {
    //...
    public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
        return new Dimension(image.getWidth(null), image.getHeight(null));
    }
}

This will give BorderLayout some hints as to how you want the panel to be laied out