Displaying TextFields in panels

[luke patte]

I have a JPanel in a JWindow with an event which creates a JTextField, however, the JTextField does no appear immediately after it is created but only appears when I resize the window. I'd like the text field to apear as soon as it is created, any ideas??
thanks

[Nathan Pruett]

You have to call invalidate() and validate() (and possibly repaint()) on the JPanel you are adding the new components to... if you're adding components dynamically, the layout manager doesn't re-layout the panel. invalidate() and validate() tells the layout manager to re-layout the panel.

[luke patte]

Cheers that worked a treat.