Components not appearing in frame

[groovygarden]

Hi, could someone help me work out what I'm doing wrong...?
I'm trying to get a frame to "pop-up" showing the highest test marks.

The code to create the frame is below. A frame does appear but it is empty...

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class displayBoard extends JFrame {

    ScoreBoard gamescores;
    displayBoard(ScoreBoard scores){
	gamescores = scores;
    }

    public displayBoard() {
   
        JLabel[] theScores = new JLabel[5];
        JPanel scorePane = new JPanel();
        setContentPane(scorePane);

        for (int i=0; i<gamescores.noScores; i++){
        theScores[i]= new JLabel();
        theScores[i].setText(Long.toString  
           (gamescores.highScore[i].getTime()));
        scorePane.add(theScores[i]);
    }
  }
}

displayBoard is called like this:

displayBoard display = new displayBoard(this);
display.show();

As I said, a frame appears but it is completly empty...

Any suggestions gratefuly received...!

 

[jfryer]

You have two methods in your piece of code

displayBoard(ScoreBoard scores){

and

public displayBoard() {

check to see which one you are calling (I'll give you a clue, you ain't calling the one that does the work)


There is something else you might want to look at too -
using

setContentPane()

when you could just add directly to the JFrame (time/reasource waste creating a JPanel for no real reason).
Although I'm not sure if this is wrong or wasteful as I have never seen it done before. Does anyone else know about this? Is it worth doing? -------------------------------------------
There are no onions, only magic
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[idarke]

Concerning setting components directly on a JFrame - I've done that before and for a basic screen it's fine. Using panels tends to make screens easier to figure out if you have a complex screen using many different layout managers. For this reason I tend to put everything on panels now and just place the panels where I want them.