how to overlap swing components

[clax99]

Hi, Im making a deck of playing cards and I need to display a spread of 13 cards(for spades). the card objects extend canvas and draw the appropriate graphics on themselves. I have a Deck class that extends JPanel and will display the spread of Card objects; trouble is I dont know how to force the overlap of the these card components to display a standard spread of cards. The normal layout managers end up just displaying 13 full cards, which is obviously not what one wants in a spread. How do I overlap components arbitrarily? Any help is much appreciated.

-Clarence

 

[michaelkrauklis]

Try an AbsoluteLayout. That's my best advice. A GridBag might also do the trick if you set the cell width to 2 or something like that. Good Luck. MYenigmaSELF:-9
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