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Sounds like you are not calling pack() after adding all the children to
MYPanel.

"David W. Taylor" <davidt@detayls.com> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> I have a very nice little editor that I would like to use in six more
> places.
>
> The code is currently sitting inside a JInternalFrame but all of the
> important editor components are inside a single JPanel in the center of a
> Borderlayout, which comprises the main part of the view.
>
> The JPanel in question holds a JTabbedPane, which has two panels, where
the
> editing occurs.
>
> My first attempt here was to create my own subclass MYPanel of JPanel and
> move all the relevant code to that new class, but when I do that the
> instance of MYPanel that is now created is invisible and of zero size.
>
> The loading of the editor all works and I can open data and hear it arrive
> and see the reactions of menu items and toolbar buttons but obviously I
need
> to do something in MYPanel to cause the JPanel it extends to gain size and
> paint itself.
>
> Are there any super() calls that I need to worry about in MYPanel?  To put
> it another way, is Swing calling MYPanel to do something that MYPanel is
> ignoring?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice or samples that you may have.
>
> David
>
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> David W. Taylor, Detayls
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