GUI not showing up initially (netbeans)

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I'm very new to Java and even newer to NetBeans.. I just cannot figure out how to fix this issue..

When I run my project the GUI initially doesn't show up. There should be a menu bar with a drop down for opening and saving a file, and exiting the program. There should also be three buttons towards the bottom of the window which can be used to display the data within the file (images in this case). But instead, the window is blank when you run the program, nothing shows at all.

When I click on the top left hand corner, where 'File' resides on the menu bar.. then it shows up and the top button shows at this point too. The second two buttons should be greyed out and only become click-able after you've clicked the first button and displayed the first image.

I've tried searching for a solution, and fiddling with the NetBeans settings but can't seem to solve this. I'm assuming it's something to do with stuff being incorrectly placed in the foreground or background but I'm unsure.

Also, I've discovered that if I remove the drawImage bit of code ((public void paint (Graphics g) {g.drawImage(imageToPaint, 50, 70, this);}) then the GUI shows up so I'm guessing this is conflicting with something.. somewhere?!

Thanks in advance if anyone can shed some light on this!

package final_project;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.image.MemoryImageSource;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.filechooser.FileFilter;
import javax.swing.filechooser.FileNameExtensionFilter;


public abstract class Analyst extends javax.swing.JFrame 
  implements ActionListener {

double heights[][] = new double [300][300];
double grads[][] = new double [300][300];
double tempg[] = new double [8];
double wgrads[][] = new double [300][300];

Image imageToPaint;

public boolean shouldcolourheights = false;

int blue = 1;
int green = 1;
int red = 1;

public Analyst() {
    initComponents();
}

public double [][] convertFromString(String[] stArray){
    double[][] data = new double [300][300];
    int lines = stArray.length;
    for (int i = 0; imaxgrad){
            maxgrad=tempg[k];
        }
    }
    return maxgrad;
}


public Image getImage (double [][] array) {
    int arrayW = array[0].length;
    int [] pixels = new int [array.length * arrayW];
    double [] oneDim = get1DArray(array);
    for (int i = 0; i < pixels.length; i++) {
        int value = (int) oneDim[i];
        if (value > 255){
            value = 255;
        }
        if (shouldcolourheights){
            int newi = (int) Math.floor(i/300);
            int newj = (int) i-(newi*300);
            if (grads[newi][newj] < 1.0){
                blue=1; green=1; red=1;
            } else if (grads[newi][newj] <=1.5) {
                blue=0; red=0; green=1;
            } else if (grads[newi][newj] <=3.0) {
                blue=1; red=0; green=0;
            } else {blue=0; red=1; green=0;}
        }
        Color pixel;
        pixel = new Color(value * red, value * green, value * blue, 255);   
        pixels[i] = pixel.getRGB();       
    }
    MemoryImageSource memImage = new MemoryImageSource(arrayW,arrayW,pixels,0,arrayW);
    Panel p = new Panel();
    Image image = p.createImage(memImage);
    return image;
}

/**
 * This method is called from within the constructor to initialize the form.
 * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is always
 * regenerated by the Form Editor.
 */
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
//                           
private void initComponents() {

    fc = new javax.swing.JFileChooser();
    btnHeights = new javax.swing.JButton();
    btnGradients = new javax.swing.JButton();
    btnColourH = new javax.swing.JButton();
    jMenuBar = new javax.swing.JMenuBar();
    jMenu = new javax.swing.JMenu();
    jMenuOpen = new javax.swing.JMenuItem();
    jMenuSave = new javax.swing.JMenuItem();
    jSeparator = new javax.swing.JPopupMenu.Separator();
    jMenuExit = new javax.swing.JMenuItem();

    setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

    btnHeights.setText("Heights");
    btnHeights.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
            btnHeightsActionPerformed(evt);
        }
    });

    btnGradients.setText("Gradients");
    btnGradients.setEnabled(false);
    btnGradients.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
            btnGradientsActionPerformed(evt);
        }
    });

    btnColourH.setText("Colour Heights");
    btnColourH.setEnabled(false);
    btnColourH.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
            btnColourHActionPerformed(evt);
        }
    });

    jMenu.setText("File");

    jMenuOpen.setAccelerator(javax.swing.KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(java.awt.event.KeyEvent.VK_O, java.awt.event.InputEvent.CTRL_MASK));
    jMenuOpen.setText("Open");
    jMenuOpen.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
            jMenuOpenActionPerformed(evt);
        }
    });
    jMenu.add(jMenuOpen);

    jMenuSave.setAccelerator(javax.swing.KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(java.awt.event.KeyEvent.VK_S, java.awt.event.InputEvent.CTRL_MASK));
    jMenuSave.setText("Save");
    jMenuSave.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
            jMenuSaveActionPerformed(evt);
        }
    });
    jMenu.add(jMenuSave);
    jMenu.add(jSeparator);

    jMenuExit.setText("Exit");
    jMenuExit.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
            jMenuExitActionPerformed(evt);
        }
    });
    jMenu.add(jMenuExit);

    jMenuBar.add(jMenu);

    setJMenuBar(jMenuBar);

    javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
    getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
    layout.setHorizontalGroup(
        layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
        .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
            .addGap(39, 39, 39)
            .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING, false)
                .addComponent(btnColourH, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                .addComponent(btnGradients, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                .addComponent(btnHeights, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE))
            .addContainerGap(258, Short.MAX_VALUE))
    );
    layout.setVerticalGroup(
        layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
        .addGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING, layout.createSequentialGroup()
            .addContainerGap(381, Short.MAX_VALUE)
            .addComponent(btnHeights)
            .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED)
            .addComponent(btnGradients)
            .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED)
            .addComponent(btnColourH)
            .addGap(27, 27, 27))
    );

    pack();
}//                         

private void jMenuOpenActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                                          
    FileFilter ft = new FileNameExtensionFilter("Text Files", "txt");
    fc.addChoosableFileFilter(ft);
    int returnVal = fc.showOpenDialog(this);
    if (returnVal==javax.swing.JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
        java.io.File file = fc.getSelectedFile();
        String file_name = file.toString();
        try {
            ReadFile file_read = new ReadFile(file_name);
            String [] arraylines = file_read.OpenFile();
            heights = convertFromString(arraylines);
            }
        catch (java.io.IOException e) {
           JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(Analyst.this, "File does not exist");
            }
    }
}                                         

private void jMenuSaveActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                                          
    String tempStr = "";
    FileFilter ft = new FileNameExtensionFilter("Text Files", "txt");
    fc.addChoosableFileFilter(ft);
    int returnVal = fc.showSaveDialog(this);
    if (returnVal==javax.swing.JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
        java.io.File saved_file = fc.getSelectedFile();
        String file_name = saved_file.toString();
        try {
            WriteFile dataOut = new WriteFile(file_name, true);
            for (int i=0; i

Joop Eggen · Accepted Answer

Add super.paint(g).

@Override
public void paint(Graphics g) {
    super.paint(g);
    g.drawImage(imageToPaint, 50, 70, this);
}

Also you can use System.arraycopy to speed up the copying.

double[] get1DArray(double[][] twoDarray) {
    double[] tempArray = new double[twoDarray.length * twoDarray[0].length];
    int jdim = twoDarray[0].length;
    for (int i = 0; i < twoDarray.length; i++) {
        System.arraycopy(twoDarray[i], 0, tempArray, i * jdim, jdim);
    }
    return tempArray;
}

GUI not showing up initially (netbeans)

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