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Thanks!  That is a good hint and may be the answer.

I will try it and report back.

David

"Greg Hamer" <ghamer@corp.netzero.net> wrote in message
news:8oe36l$n2f9@bornews.borland.com...
> Sounds like you are not calling pack() after adding all the children to
> MYPanel.
>
> "David W. Taylor" <davidt@detayls.com> wrote in message
> news:39a49222$1_1@dnews...
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > David W. Taylor, Detayls
> >
> >
> >
>
>