netBeans gui problem

Question

I have designed this gui in netBeans which has a canvas , a couple of JtextAreas and a Jbutton. It looks great in preview, the problem is when I run the actual program the text

Answer 1

No idea whats wrong, but you should NOT be using a Canvas. That is an AWT component and you should not be using AWT components in a Swing application.

Actually the Canvas could be the problem. AWT components are painted on top of Swing components which could be causing the problem. That might be why the mouse over forces the button to show through the Canvas. I've never mixed AWT/SWING components so I don't know what wierd painting artifacts you will encounter.