Adding JPanel to JFrame

Question

I have a program in which a JPanel is added to a JFrame:

public class Test{

    Test2 test = new Test2();
    JFrame frame = new JFrame();

    Test(){

    ...         


        

Answer 1

Instead of having your Test2 class contain a JPanel, you should have it subclass JPanel:

public class Test2 extends JPanel {

Test2(){

...

}

More details:

JPanel is a subclass of Component, so any method that takes a Component as an argument can also take a JPanel as an argument.

Older versions didn't let you add directly to a JFrame; you had to use JFrame.getContentPane().add(Component). If you're using an older version, this might also be an issue. Newer versions of Java do let you call JFrame.add(Component) directly.