placing swing components

[cinderalla rahul]

Hello friends,
I have a problem in placing a components.
I have a JPanel whose background is set by backgroundpanel(backgroundpanel is JPanel in which the image is painted(using graphics)).
So JPanel's background image is set like this.
Now i am adding swing components(JButton,JTextField..) over this JPanel.
JPanel.add(Backgroundpanel);
backgroundpanel.add(jtextfield1);
....
But these swing components are not visible.But if these components are AWT components then its visible.
How come be overcome.
Light weight component(JButton,JTextField..) is being placed over the lightweightcomponent(JPanel).
Then why is not possible.I need Swing components to be placed.
Excepting ur replies,
with regards,
cinderallarahul.

[Rashid Ali]

It seems that you are missing getContentPane() method that's why they are visible in AWT but not Swing cuz Swing requires this method to add component in the GUI.
As you are adding your components to JPanel instance. And now what you have to do is to add your JPanel instance with the getContentPane().
Try out the following example:

import java.awt.* ;
import javax.swing.* ;
public class TryButton extends JFrame
{
public TryButton() 
{
Container c = getContentPane() ;
JPanel panel = new JPanel() ;
JButton button = new JButton("My Button");
panel.add( button ) ;
JTextField field = new JTextField( 20 ) ;
panel.add( field ) ;
c.add( panel ) ;
pack() ;
show() ;
} 
public static void main( String[] args ) 
{
    new TryButton() ;
}
}

that's it. Note that getContentPane() is not required by AWT components but Swing does.
Hope it clarifies.
Good luck
Rashid Ali
[ January 21, 2002: Message edited by: Rashid Ali ]