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Alan Shiers <jshiers@istar.ca> writes:

> If this method is supposed to remove something from a component,
> which is acting as a container, how does one specify which component
> within the container is to be removed?

Use the component. The problem is that not all JComponents have any
components inside them, but JComponent extends Container presumably to
have the most wide-ranging base component possible.

> Take the JLabel for instance.  It can contain two things: text and an
> icon.  If I want to remove either of those from the JLabel how is it done
> with the remove(Component c) method?

It isn't, since neither the text nor icon are put into the label using
add(). They are properties, and get painted onto the component's
background, as is common for Swing components in general.