Nesting JComponents together?

[degamer106]

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

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

public class DayTester
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		JFrame frame = new JFrame();

		TimeComponent time = new TimeComponent();
		DayComponent day = new DayComponent();

		frame.add(time);
		frame.add(day);

		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		frame.setSize(FRAME_WIDTH, FRAME_HEIGHT);
		frame.setVisible(true);


	}
	private static final int FRAME_WIDTH = 1000;
	private static final int FRAME_HEIGHT = 1000;
}

TimeComponent.java

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

public class TimeComponent extends JComponent
{
	public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
	{
		Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
		Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(0, 0, 50, 25);

		g2.drawString("Time", (int)rect.getWidth() / 4, (int)rect.getHeight());
		g2.draw(rect);

		String time = null;
		for (int i = 0; i < 24; i++)
		{
			if (i == 0)
				time = Integer.toString(12) + " AM";
			else if (i > 0 && i < 12)
				time = Integer.toString(i) + " AM";
			else if (i == 12)
				time = Integer.toString(12) + " PM";
			else
				time = Integer.toString(i - 12) + " PM";

			rect.translate(0, (int)rect.getHeight());
			g2.drawString(time, (int)(rect.getX() + rect.getWidth() / 4), (int)(rect.getY() + rect.getHeight()));
			g2.draw(rect);
		}
	}
}

DayComponent.java

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

public class DayComponent extends JComponent
{
	public DayComponent()
	{
		events = new String[10];

		events[0] = "Soccer";
		events[9] = "Piano";
	}
	public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
	{
		Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
		Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(50, 0, 200, 25);

		rect.translate(0, (int)rect.getHeight());
		g2.drawString(events[0], (int)(rect.getX() + rect.getWidth() / 4), (int)(rect.getY() + rect.getHeight()));
		g2.draw(rect);
	}
	private String[] events;
}

[masijade]

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.

[degamer106]

I tried both. Nothing gets drawn to the panel.

frame.setLayout(new FlowLayout());

Can JComponents be nested?

[masijade]

Ah, didn't really pay attention to that.

You don't add things directly to the JFrame. You add them to it's contentPane

frame.getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout());
frame.getContentPane().add(component);

[degamer106]

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??

[masijade]

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.