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Jeff,

It looks like you're adding the buttons to the TNSwapToolPanel itself
instead of its content pane. In setInsertButton(), replace the line
"this.add(button, new XYConstraints(8, 12, 67, -1));" with
"this.getContentPane().add(button, new XYConstraints(8, 12, 67, -1));" and
you should start seeing buttons. Another observation: if you're going to use
"this," you don't need to pass in a reference to the panel.

Regards,
Trey

"Jeff Marendo" <marendoj@commos.com> wrote in message
news:83tdra$t506@forums.borland.com...
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking at my code right now, and I think I'm losing my mind.  I
created
> a class in JBuilder3 that extends from JPanel.  My class has three
JButtons
> that I'm trying to add to it.  These buttons aren't special, really.  I
just
> want to add them to my panel, but what I'm trying to is to have a 'set'
> function for each button that is called from jbInit( ).  This way I don't
> have a ton of extraneous lines of code there.  The problem is that my
> buttons are not being added to my panel.  Here is code for one of my
> buttons:
>
> public class TNSwapToolPanel extends JPanel {
>   XYLayout tnSwapToolPanelLayout = new XYLayout();
>   JButton btn_insert = new JButton();
>   ...
>
> private void jbInit() throws Exception {
>     this.setLayout(tnSwapToolPanelLayout);
>     this.setBackground(Color.white);
>     setInsertButton(btn_insert, this);
>     ...
>
> private void setInsertButton(JButton button, TNSwapToolPanel panel) {
>     button.setText("Insert");
>     button.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", Font.BOLD, 14));
>     button.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.black));
>     button.setBackground(Color.blue);
>     button.setForeground(Color.white);
>     button.setMnemonic('i');
>     // button.addMouseListener(cursDet);
>     this.add(button, new XYConstraints(8, 12, 67, -1));
>   }
>
> Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way, but it seems like it should
work.
> I can clearly see that the buttons aren't being added to the panel when I
go
> to the 'Design' tab in JBuilder3.  Please steer me in the right direction
if
> anyone can see what I'm doing wrong.  Thanks in advance.
>
> Jeff
>
>