How to add a JPanel & JList to a JSrollPane

[john mattucci]

I have a JList which has been placed as the viewport to a JScrollPane. I want to place a JPanel on top of the list to act like a header in
a JTable. My problem now is that I place the JPanel at location 0,0 within the JSroll & I set the location of the JList at 0,20. The JList is always placed at 0,0 and the text contained within
the JPanel blend with the first row of the JList.
Can this be done?
Thanks for your time

[Nathan Pruett]

If you are trying to do a header, place the header component and the scrollpane inside another container... If you place the header inside the scrollpane, it will scroll with the rest of the list and just look like the first row of the list...

Something like the following :

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.util.Vector;
public class HeaderList extends JPanel {
    private JList list;
    private JPanel headerPanel;
    private JLabel header;
    public HeaderList() {
        setLayout( new BorderLayout() );
        list = new JList();
        headerPanel = new JPanel();
        headerPanel.setLayout( new BorderLayout() );
        headerPanel.setBorder( BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder() );
        JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane( list );
        add( scroll, BorderLayout.CENTER );
        header = new JLabel( "Header", JLabel.CENTER );
        headerPanel.add( header );
        add( headerPanel, BorderLayout.NORTH );
    }
    public void setListData( Vector vect ) {
        list.setListData( vect );
    }
    public static void main( String[] arg ) {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame( "JList with Header" );
        HeaderList myList = new HeaderList();
        Vector v = new Vector();
        for ( int i = 0; i < 10; i++ ) {
            v.add( "Data " + i );
        }
        myList.setListData( v );
        JPanel p = new JPanel();
        p.add( myList );
        frame.getContentPane().add( p );
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
        frame.pack();
        frame.show();
    }
}