Problems with swing components

[Paul Bull]

Hello Everyone,
I have a problem I'm hoping someone can help me solve.
I am working on a gui interface. It consists of a JFrame. I added
a JMenuBar to the top of the JFrame using the setJMenuBar() method. Next I added a vertical Box set at BorderLayout.NORTH. In the vertical Box I added two horizontal Boxes. The top Box contains two Choice fields. The bottom contains a textfield. My problem is, when I click "file" on the MenuBar, the pull down menu with my menu items is partially hidden behind a Choice field and textfield below it. Is there anything I can do with these components so my pull down menu is not obscured by these components below it?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Paul

[Cindy Glass]

The problem is that you are mixing AWT heavyweight things (Boxes) with Swing lightweight things (JFrames and JMenuBars). The heavyweight things will always hide the lightweight things.
You need to decide Swing or AWT and then stick with that.

[Paul Bull]

Thanks Cindy