Java.awt.Canvas eclipses drop down JMenu in GUI
First, thanks to anyone who can offer me assistance on this topic. The problem is something that I feel should
not have occurred, and i also feel that there should be a simple solution that just seems oblivious to me right now. Perhaps I am using the wrong components or initializing them incorrectly; I am not sure because GUI programming is not one of my strong points.
Below is the sample application code generated from Netbeans GUI Builder (Project Matisse) for my JFrame called "NewApplication". I've added the canvas that I would like to use to the JFrame. The main problem is that the java.awt.Canvas component eclipses/covers up the JMenu drop down component. I am not sure how to avoid this. Clearly, the Menu should be painted above anything else within the frame but for some reason this is not the case.
package RPG.Floor;
publicclass NewApplicationextends javax.swing.JFrame{
public NewApplication(){
initComponents();
}
// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Code ">
privatevoid initComponents(){
canvas1 =new java.awt.Canvas();
menuBar =new javax.swing.JMenuBar();
fileMenu =new javax.swing.JMenu();
openMenuItem =new javax.swing.JMenuItem();
saveMenuItem =new javax.swing.JMenuItem();
saveAsMenuItem =new javax.swing.JMenuItem();
exitMenuItem =new javax.swing.JMenuItem();
editMenu =new javax.swing.JMenu();
cutMenuItem =new javax.swing.JMenuItem();
copyMenuItem =new javax.swing.JMenuItem();
pasteMenuItem =new javax.swing.JMenuItem();
deleteMenuItem =new javax.swing.JMenuItem();
helpMenu =new javax.swing.JMenu();
contentsMenuItem =new javax.swing.JMenuItem();
aboutMenuItem =new javax.swing.JMenuItem();
setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
canvas1.setBackground(java.awt.Color.white);
fileMenu.setText("File");
openMenuItem.setText("Open");
fileMenu.add(openMenuItem);
saveMenuItem.setText("Save");
fileMenu.add(saveMenuItem);
saveAsMenuItem.setText("Save As ...");
fileMenu.add(saveAsMenuItem);
exitMenuItem.setText("Exit");
exitMenuItem.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener(){
publicvoid actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt){
exitMenuItemActionPerformed(evt);
}
});
fileMenu.add(exitMenuItem);
menuBar.add(fileMenu);
editMenu.setText("Edit");
cutMenuItem.setText("Cut");
editMenu.add(cutMenuItem);
copyMenuItem.setText("Copy");
editMenu.add(copyMenuItem);
pasteMenuItem.setText("Paste");
editMenu.add(pasteMenuItem);
deleteMenuItem.setText("Delete");
editMenu.add(deleteMenuItem);
menuBar.add(editMenu);
helpMenu.setText("Help");
contentsMenuItem.setText("Contents");
helpMenu.add(contentsMenuItem);
aboutMenuItem.setText("About");
helpMenu.add(aboutMenuItem);
menuBar.add(helpMenu);
setJMenuBar(menuBar);
org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout layout =new org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
layout.setHorizontalGroup(
layout.createParallelGroup(org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout.LEADING)
.add(layout.createSequentialGroup()
.addContainerGap()
.add(canvas1, org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 380, Short.MAX_VALUE)
.addContainerGap())
);
layout.setVerticalGroup(
layout.createParallelGroup(org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout.LEADING)
.add(layout.createSequentialGroup()
.addContainerGap()
.add(canvas1, org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 259, Short.MAX_VALUE)
.addContainerGap())
);
pack();
}// </editor-fold>
privatevoid exitMenuItemActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt){
System.exit(0);
}
publicstaticvoid main(String args[]){
java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
publicvoid run(){
new NewApplication().setVisible(true);
}
});
}
// Variables declaration - do not modify
private javax.swing.JMenuItem aboutMenuItem;
private java.awt.Canvas canvas1;
private javax.swing.JMenuItem contentsMenuItem;
private javax.swing.JMenuItem copyMenuItem;
private javax.swing.JMenuItem cutMenuItem;
private javax.swing.JMenuItem deleteMenuItem;
private javax.swing.JMenu editMenu;
private javax.swing.JMenuItem exitMenuItem;
private javax.swing.JMenu fileMenu;
private javax.swing.JMenu helpMenu;
private javax.swing.JMenuBar menuBar;
private javax.swing.JMenuItem openMenuItem;
private javax.swing.JMenuItem pasteMenuItem;
private javax.swing.JMenuItem saveAsMenuItem;
private javax.swing.JMenuItem saveMenuItem;
// End of variables declaration
}
