Content Pane Problems

[Darum]

Greetings!

I'm facing two related problems in developing a Java Applet.

My applet class extends JApplet.

1) The current default layout of the whole window (not individual
components) seems to be a flowLayout. I'd like to set the layout to a
gridBagLayout, however the setLayout command does not seem to be
understood (my compiler is eclipse, JRE 1.5.0 and JDK 5.0), so I
cannot get the following code to work, no specific error msg
generated:
getContentPane.setLayout(new GridBagLayout);

2) similar problem, cannot setBackground or setForeground of the
overall pane.

Please Advise, thanks.

-Darum

 

[Roedy Green]

getContentPane.setLayout(new GridBagLayout);

getContentPane is a method, not a variable.

My JApplets have code like this:

Container contentPane = this.getContentPane();
contentPane.setLayout( new GridBagLayout());
contentPane.setBackground( INTERESTINGCOLOUR );
contentPane.add ( component , .... );

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/japplet.html

 

[SadRed]

Greetings!

I'm facing two related problems in developing a Java Applet.

My applet class extends JApplet.

1) The current default layout of the whole window (not individual
components) seems to be a flowLayout. I'd like to set the layout to a
gridBagLayout, however the setLayout command does not seem to be
understood (my compiler is eclipse, JRE 1.5.0 and JDK 5.0), so I
cannot get the following code to work, no specific error msg
generated:
getContentPane.setLayout(new GridBagLayout);

2) similar problem, cannot setBackground or setForeground of the
overall pane.

Please Advise, thanks.

-Darum

getContentPane().setLayout(new GridBagLayout());