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I have created a Java Desktop Application with NetBeans 6.9 IDE. The application consists of several panels. Three of these panels have simple rectangles drawn on them with different fill colors. The other panels have a jFreeChart drawn on them. What I would like to do is to place a background image behind everything let all of the panels have transparent backgrounds so the image will show through. Can anyone take me through how to do this using the NetBeans IDE? Thanks

 
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Jesse Miller wrote:I have created a Java Desktop Application with NetBeans 6.9 IDE. The application consists of several panels. Three of these panels have simple rectangles drawn on them with different fill colors. The other panels have a jFreeChart drawn on them. What I would like to do is to place a background image behind everything let all of the panels have transparent backgrounds so the image will show through.



To have a JPanel show through, usually you just call setOpaque(false) on the JPanel. To show a background image, the override the component's paintComponent method and draw the image there as is shown in this forum's FAQ (for a JPanel, but the technique is the same).


Can anyone take me through how to do this using the NetBeans IDE?


Not me as I don't use code-generation, and I strongly urge you, at this stage in your Swing education, to do the same.

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Ok, I understand your opposition to code-generation. I am trying to scrap my generated code and just start from the ground up. The frame that all of these panels are in is re sizable, I need to make each of the panels re size with the frame. Any ideas what layout I could use to do this?
 
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Jesse Miller wrote:Ok, I understand your opposition to code-generation. I am trying to scrap my generated code and just start from the ground up. The frame that all of these panels are in is re sizable, I need to make each of the panels re size with the frame. Any ideas what layout I could use to do this?



Yep, the first chapter you should read in the Swing tutorials is the one on layout managers as these will do all of this for you if properly used. But please realize that a concept that may not be well mentioned in the tutorials is that we often nest containers (usually JPanels), each with their own layout manager in order to achieve the layout desired.
 
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Ok, which layout manager would handle automatic resizing of jPanels inside jFrames best?
 
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Jesse Miller wrote:Ok, which layout manager would handle automatic resizing of jPanels inside jFrames best?



This is an unanswerable question as a) it all depends on the situation and b) we usually use more than one layout manager in an app, often nesting JPanels each that use their own layout manager. If you study the tutorial as suggested above, I think that it will all be clear to you.
 
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