Name: diC59631 Date: 04/21/98


I am using a JPanel with BorderLayout to act as
a container to show different JComponents. (This
is a workflow application and I want to show each
'workitem' on the client screen).

I add a component to be displayed with:

pnWorkArea.add( (new JPanel()), BorderLayout.CENTER );
pnWorkArea.doLayout();

(That code works, when adding a new JPanel),

This code, which gets a newly created item
from the server also works:

wfi = app.getNewWorkItem( wt );

JPanel wfid = wfi.getDisplay();
pnWorkArea.add( wfid, BorderLayout.CENTER );
pnWorkArea.doLayout();

However, when I get an existing work item from
the server and try to add it:

wfi = app.getNextWorkItem();

if ( null == wfi )
{
  wfid = new NoWorkPanel();
}
else
{
  wfid = wfi.getDisplay();
}

pnWorkArea.removeAll();
pnWorkArea.add( (new JPanel()), BorderLayout.CENTER );
pnWorkArea.doLayout();
pnWorkArea.removeAll();
pnWorkArea.doLayout();
pnWorkArea.add( wfid, BorderLayout.CENTER );
pnWorkArea.doLayout();

This does not work, it does *nothing at all*
until I manually resize the applet.
Notice that I tried clearing out everything in
the container to make it seem like it was
getting something new (which did seem to work).

So, something is weird with doLayout that does not
seem to be setting the appropriate dirty flags?

If you want, I can send you complete working code
for this problem.
(Review ID: 28162)
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