applet problem

[satellite03]

hi,
what is the difference between panel() and contentpane()?

are these two thing same for a Jframe ?

can you tell me whats the difference beteen the two (if exist at all !) with a small example?

 

[stefanwagner]

You may not add something to a JFrame directly.

But a JFrame has a contentPane, and to this, you may add things.

This contentPane isn't a Panel, and the JFrame has no Panel, unless you add one.

If you only add a Panel to the JFrames-contentPane, and add further things to this Panel - or add those things to the contentpane directly - I guess you will not see a difference, and maybee the methods, allowed to JPanel and the contentPane are nearly identically.

One difference is, that you may add Panels to Panels, but not 'getContentPane()'s.