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Nesting JComponents together?

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I'm having a little trouble trying to nest two component classes (both extend JComponent) together. When I create the frame in my tester file, instantiate each class, and try to add both of them to the frame, it doesn't come out correctly. For instance, I want my frame to display the TimeComponent right next to the DayComponent in this program:

Tester.java

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  1. import java.awt.*;
  2. import javax.swing.*;
  3.  
  4. public class DayTester
  5. {
  6. 	public static void main(String[] args)
  7. 	{
  8. 		JFrame frame = new JFrame();
  9.  
  10. 		TimeComponent time = new TimeComponent();
  11. 		DayComponent day = new DayComponent();
  12.  
  13. 		frame.add(time);
  14. 		frame.add(day);
  15.  
  16. 		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
  17. 		frame.setSize(FRAME_WIDTH, FRAME_HEIGHT);
  18. 		frame.setVisible(true);
  19.  
  20.  
  21. 	}
  22. 	private static final int FRAME_WIDTH = 1000;
  23. 	private static final int FRAME_HEIGHT = 1000;
  24. }

TimeComponent.java
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  1. import java.awt.*;
  2. import java.awt.geom.*;
  3. import javax.swing.*;
  4.  
  5. public class TimeComponent extends JComponent
  6. {
  7. 	public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
  8. 	{
  9. 		Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
  10. 		Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(0, 0, 50, 25);
  11.  
  12. 		g2.drawString("Time", (int)rect.getWidth() / 4, (int)rect.getHeight());
  13. 		g2.draw(rect);
  14.  
  15. 		String time = null;
  16. 		for (int i = 0; i < 24; i++)
  17. 		{
  18. 			if (i == 0)
  19. 				time = Integer.toString(12) + " AM";
  20. 			else if (i > 0 && i < 12)
  21. 				time = Integer.toString(i) + " AM";
  22. 			else if (i == 12)
  23. 				time = Integer.toString(12) + " PM";
  24. 			else
  25. 				time = Integer.toString(i - 12) + " PM";
  26.  
  27. 			rect.translate(0, (int)rect.getHeight());
  28. 			g2.drawString(time, (int)(rect.getX() + rect.getWidth() / 4), (int)(rect.getY() + rect.getHeight()));
  29. 			g2.draw(rect);
  30. 		}
  31. 	}
  32. }

DayComponent.java
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  1. import java.awt.*;
  2. import java.awt.geom.*;
  3. import javax.swing.*;
  4.  
  5. public class DayComponent extends JComponent
  6. {
  7. 	public DayComponent()
  8. 	{
  9. 		events = new String[10];
  10.  
  11. 		events[0] = "Soccer";
  12. 		events[9] = "Piano";
  13. 	}
  14. 	public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
  15. 	{
  16. 		Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
  17. 		Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(50, 0, 200, 25);
  18.  
  19. 		rect.translate(0, (int)rect.getHeight());
  20. 		g2.drawString(events[0], (int)(rect.getX() + rect.getWidth() / 4), (int)(rect.getY() + rect.getHeight()));
  21. 		g2.draw(rect);
  22. 	}
  23. 	private String[] events;
  24. }
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Re: Nesting JComponents together?

Frame uses a BorderLayout by default. So, add one West, and one Center, or one Center and one East, or one East and one West, or change the layout to FlowLayout.
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Re: Nesting JComponents together?

I tried both. Nothing gets drawn to the panel.

frame.setLayout(new FlowLayout());

Can JComponents be nested?
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Re: Nesting JComponents together?

Ah, didn't really pay attention to that.

You don't add things directly to the JFrame. You add them to it's contentPane
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  1. frame.getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout());
  2. frame.getContentPane().add(component);
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Re: Nesting JComponents together?

hmmm I tried that as well and I still don't get anything in the frame.

I can view each component separately if I only have one added to the frame, but not both. Does it have something to do with extending JComponent??
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Re: Nesting JComponents together?

Do you do a frame.pack() anywhere? I don't see one. Directly before frame.setSize do frame.pack().

And yes, JComponents can be nested, especially since nearly every Swing element is a JComponent.
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