Question

When I am running this, JLabel is not visible, but when I resize window (with mouse) JLabel is showed. Why?

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

public class FrmTaoLogin extends JFrame {

  private JPanel pnlLeft = new JPanel();

  public FrmTaoLogin() {

    super();

    pnlLeft.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder());
    pnlLeft.add(new JLabel("test1"));
    getContentPane().add(pnlLeft,BorderLayout.SOUTH);

    setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    setSize(200, 200); 

  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    FrmTaoLogin FrmLogin = new FrmTaoLogin();
    FrmLogin.setVisible(true);

  }

}

Answer 1

This look like some of the L&F bugs in older Java VMs on newer OS. For example on Windows 7 the most problems are solved first with 1.6.0_17. You should start your program with a console. If you see some stacktraces in the event thread then it is a problem of an L&F bug.