Create and show a label after running java application

Question

I have been working on a problem for 2 days and it's going to be a headache for me! I use swing to create the GUI for my app. I want to add a label to my panel after running the code by clicking on the button, but I can't. Please help me to solve this problem. Much of this code is auto-generated by swing and it's not code I wrote.

package javaapplication1;

import java.awt.Color;
import javax.swing.SwingConstants;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class RandomWordGUI extends javax.swing.JFrame {

/** Creates new form RandomWordGUI */
public RandomWordGUI() {
    initComponents();
}


/** 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")
// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">
private void initComponents() {

    jPanel1 = new javax.swing.JPanel();
    jButton1 = new javax.swing.JButton();
    jLabel1 = new javax.swing.JLabel();

    setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

    jButton1.setText("jButton1");
    jButton1.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
            jButton1ActionPerformed(evt);
        }
    });

    jLabel1.setText("jLabel1");

    javax.swing.GroupLayout jPanel1Layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(jPanel1);
    jPanel1.setLayout(jPanel1Layout);
    jPanel1Layout.setHorizontalGroup(
        jPanel1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
        .addGroup(jPanel1Layout.createSequentialGroup()
            .addGroup(jPanel1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
                .addGroup(jPanel1Layout.createSequentialGroup()
                    .addGap(155, 155, 155)
                    .addComponent(jButton1))
                .addGroup(jPanel1Layout.createSequentialGroup()
                    .addGap(172, 172, 172)
                    .addComponent(jLabel1)))
            .addContainerGap(172, Short.MAX_VALUE))
    );
    jPanel1Layout.setVerticalGroup(
        jPanel1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
        .addGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING, jPanel1Layout.createSequentialGroup()
            .addGap(70, 70, 70)
            .addComponent(jLabel1)
            .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE)
            .addComponent(jButton1)
            .addGap(91, 91, 91))
    );

    javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
    getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
    layout.setHorizontalGroup(
        layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
        .addComponent(jPanel1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE)
    );
    layout.setVerticalGroup(
        layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
        .addGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING, layout.createSequentialGroup()
            .addContainerGap(186, Short.MAX_VALUE)
            .addComponent(jPanel1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 114, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
    );

    pack();
}// </editor-fold>

private void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                                         

    JLabel jLabel2 = new JLabel();
    jLabel2.setText("this is a label");
    this.jPanel1.add(jLabel2);
    this.jPanel1.repaint();
    this.jPanel1.revalidate();


}                                        

/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String args[]) {
    java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {


        public void run() {
            new RandomWordGUI().setVisible(true);


        }
        RandomWordGUI randWord=new RandomWordGUI();



    });
}

// Variables declaration - do not modify
private javax.swing.JButton jButton1;
private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel1;
private javax.swing.JPanel jPanel1;
// End of variables declaration

}

Answer 1

You're trying adding to add to a panel using GroupLayout. Adding dynamically to that would be quite tricky (if possible), and I do not recommend that. I recommend adding a helper JPanel to the pane, and adding any new components to that helper panel.

EDIT:

To clear the solution that was used: a helper JPanel was added using the form editor (jPanel3 in the code below). The form designer defaults to using GroupLayout for the added panel too, which would lead to the same problem that was to be solved in the first place, so the layout manager of the helper panel was changed to FlowLayout. The action code ends up being as simple as:

private void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
    JLabel jLabel2 = new JLabel();
    jLabel2.setText("this is a label");
    this.jPanel3.add(jLabel2);
    this.jPanel3.revalidate();
}

Answer 2

I entered another Panel in my Window- jPanel3- and added jLabel2 to it... then added this code in content of ActionEvent jPanel3.setLayout(new FlowLayout());

and every thing became ok... :)

Thanks to my dear friend , @Kiheru for his help and guidance.