panel not showing in JFrame

[rjl444]

I have a method that displays a Jframe and has a panel.The frame
appears immediately, but the panel inside the frame does not show until
all the processing is completed. I even tried threading.
here is the code. thanks for any help:


public void run(){


JPanel panel = new JPanel();
JLabel prompt = new JLabel("Processing log files");
myFrame.setContentPane(panel);
myFrame.setTitle("Processing logs...Please Wait");
myFrame.setBounds(100,100,350,75); // position frame
myFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
myFrame.toFront();
panel.add(prompt);
myFrame.pack();
myFrame.setVisible(true);
myFrame.repaint(); //i did this to see if it helps, but no