You're not showing enough of the component and layout creation code to be able to diagnose. In particular it's not clear what the z-order is, or how the components are sized and positioned.
If you try setting the various panels/components you add to opaque and setting the background color it may make it obvious where your components are positioned. Any good debugger or tools like SwingExplorer (https://swingexplorer.dev.java.net/) should also allow you to interogate the container and find the order and position of the child components. [Message sent by forum member 'luano' (luano)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=325913 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to lists...@java.sun.com and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to lists...@java.sun.com and include in the body of the message "help".