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Barbi
Barbi

Reputation: 37

How to add a JPanel to the center of a JFrame?

I try to make a JFrame in which I have a JPanel (which contains a circle) and it is bordered by four buttons (north, south, east, west). The circle will move in the direction indicated by the pressed button.
My problem is that I can't manage to put my JPanel in the center:

https://i.sstatic.net/Cv12Q.png

The JFrame's class looks like this:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class Frame extends JFrame implements ActionListener {

JButton north, south, east, west;
int x = 10, y = 10;
MyPanel panel;

public Frame() {
    setLayout(new BorderLayout());
    panel = new MyPanel();
    panel.setBackground(Color.MAGENTA);

    north = new JButton("NORTH");
    south = new JButton("SOUTH");
    east = new JButton("EAST");
    west = new JButton("WEST");

    add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    add(north, BorderLayout.NORTH);
    add(south, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    add(east, BorderLayout.EAST);
    add(west, BorderLayout.WEST);

    north.addActionListener(this);
    south.addActionListener(this);
    east.addActionListener(this);
    west.addActionListener(this);

    setBounds(100, 100, 300, 300);
    setVisible(true);
}

@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    if (e.getSource() == north) {
        y -= 3;
        panel.setY(y);
        panel.repaint();
    }

    if (e.getSource() == south) {
        y += 3;
        panel.setY(y);
        panel.repaint();
    }

    if (e.getSource() == east) {
        x += 3;
        panel.setX(x);
        panel.repaint();
    }

    if (e.getSource() == west) {
        x -= 3;
        panel.setX(x);
        panel.repaint();
    }
}
}

And the MyPanel class looks like this: 

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;

import javax.swing.JPanel;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class MyPanel extends JPanel {
private Color color = Color.CYAN;
private int x = 10, y = 10;

public void paint(Graphics g) {
    super.paintComponent(g);
    g.setColor(color);
    g.fillOval(x, y, 20, 20);
}

public int getX() {
    return x;
}

public void setX(int x) {
    this.x = x;
}

public int getY() {
    return y;
}

public void setY(int y) {
    this.y = y;
}
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1031

Answers (1)

camickr
camickr

Reputation: 324108

Don't override getX() and getY()methods of your custom panel. Those methods are used by Swing to determine the location of the component.

Instead you should have methods like setCirleX(...), setCircleY(...), getCircleX() and getCircleY().

Upvotes: 1

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