JPanel not visible

[fatcodeguy]

Hi, I have a JPanel with some widgets on it, which is suppose to open when I press a button. this is what my action listener looks like

button.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
myFrame.getContentPane().add(new myJPanel(myFrame));
}
});
The panel calls myFrame because it needs some of the objects defined in the owner pane.

Putting aside that the layout will be messed, I have setVisible(true) in the panel constructor, but I still can't see it when it constructs. Any suggestions? thanks

 

[pipk]

its difficult to say without seeing the class definition of your myJPanel class, but in my own experience JPanels tend to stay hidden if they havent had components added to them - maybe there is a problem with your constructor - are you trying to add components to it that have already been instantiated on your parent frame? Usually you will need to create duplicate objects rather than reutilize the existing components.