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Henrik Wahlberg wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I'm trying to make i combo panel similar to the tabpane, but with the tabs replaced by a Combobox.
> To achieve this I have subclassed a JPanel, called PDropDownPane. In this I setup a borderlayout, and add a combobox in the top (NORTH) and a cardlayout in CENTER.
> 
> To test it, I add this panel to a JFrame center, and add an "ADD" button on the NORTH border, to test adding panels dynamically. This snip is placed in DDTest.java.
> 
> The problem is, that the combobox gets overlayed (most of the time) by the cardpane layout, which then leaves a blank(gray) area in the SOUTH border region, same height as the combobox or the ADD button.
> 
> Before loosing all of my hair, please look at my code??
> 
> Is there a tool to visualize the "window" relationship ?. On MS Windows i had a tool to do this kind of spying, but I belive it's no good for swing.


Hi Henrik,

Your code's ok, just remove the getComponent() method.

Regards
Henrik Dahl Hansen
IBM Denmark
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