I'm fairly new to Java Swing and I'm running into a few problems.
- As a side question, when making a fairly large Java Swing Application, what is the best way to split up code? In my case I want to have an application that has a layout just as Microsoft Word where there is a JToolBar filled with buttons and a main JPanel where changes are made based on the buttons pressed in the Tool Bar.
So as shown in the code below, I have a JFrame and I call the MainPanel class in order to create a panel and add a ToolBar with a button. When the button is pressed it adds a button to the panel. The problem comes when you click the button nothing shows up until you resize the window(in my case I simply manually drag the screen to make it larger).
public class Main { private static void createAndShowGUI() { //Create and set up the window. JFrame frame = new JFrame("MathMaker"); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); //Create the menu bar. Make it have a green background. //MainToolBar mainTB = new MainToolBar(); MainPanel mainPanel = new MainPanel(); frame.getContentPane().add(mainPanel.getGUI(), BorderLayout.CENTER); frame.pack(); frame.setVisible(true); } public static void main(String[] args) { //Schedule a job for the event-dispatching thread: //creating and showing this application's GUI. javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { createAndShowGUI(); } }); } }
public class MainPanel implements ActionListener{ JPanel mPanel; JToolBar mToolBar; JButton addQuestion; public MainPanel() { mPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout()); mToolBar = new JToolBar(); addQuestion = new JButton("test");
addQuestion.addActionListener(this); mPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout()); mPanel.setBackground(new Color(248, 213, 131)); mPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200, 180)); mToolBar.add(addQuestion); mPanel.add(mToolBar, BorderLayout.PAGE_START); } public JComponent getGUI() { return mPanel; } @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { JButton temp = new JButton("temp"); mPanel.add(temp); }
}