JLabel paints new text over the old one, after set text is called

Question

I have a progress dialog window, which contains 3 JComponents: JLabel, JProgressBar, JButton, which is used as default dialog window in different parts of the application from different threads. So when i try to change the value of the label, it does not clear the background under it, it just paints new text over the old one. The wrapper class does not override any methods it just delegate method calls to components it contains.

Here is code:

  public void setNote(String note) {
        this.note = note;
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
               label.setText(ProgressDialog.this.note);
            }
         });
    }

The actual result is similar to http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post1073367.html#post1073367 But that solution was not appropriate for me.

Has anyone faced problem like this?

Thanks.

This is cuted version of the class. But as I said i could not make it work incorrectly. Hope this helps.

    public class Tesssst {

    public static void main(String [] args) {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);


        ProgressDialog dialog = new ProgressDialog(frame, "Title", "Message");
        dialog.showDialog(true);

    }
}

class ProgressDialog extends JComponent {
    /**
     *
     */
    private JProgressBar progressBar;
    private JLabel label;
    private JFrame parentComponent;
    private String title;
    private String note;
    private boolean canceled;
    private boolean cancelEnabled;
    private JButton btnCancel;
    private JPanel contentPanel;

    public ProgressDialog(JFrame parentComponent, String title, String message) {
        this.parentComponent = parentComponent;
        this.title = title;
        progressBar = new JProgressBar();
        label = new JLabel();
        contentPanel =new JPanel();
        canceled = false;
        cancelEnabled = true;
        setNote(message);
        setOpaque(true);

    }
    public void setNote(String note) {
        this.note = note;
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                label.setText(ProgressDialog.this.note);
            }
         });
    }

    public String getNote() {
        return note;
    }

    protected void initDialog() {
        setBorder(new EmptyBorder(6, 6, 6, 6));
        contentPanel = new JPanel();
        contentPanel.setOpaque(true);
        setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        add(contentPanel);
        btnCancel = new JButton("Cancel");
        btnCancel.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                label.setText("ololo");
            }

        });

        contentPanel.setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
        {
        GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints();
            gbc.gridx = 0;
            gbc.gridy = 0;
            gbc.fill = GridBagConstraints.NONE;
            gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHWEST;
            gbc.insets = new Insets(2, 0, 0, 0);
            label.setOpaque(true);
            contentPanel.add(label, gbc);
        } // label

        {
            GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints();
            gbc.gridx = 0;
            gbc.gridy = 1;
            gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTH;
            gbc.weightx = 1;
            gbc.fill = GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL;
            gbc.insets = new Insets(4, 0, 4, 0);
            contentPanel.add(progressBar, gbc);
        } // progressBar

        {
            GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints();
            gbc.gridx = 0;
            gbc.gridy = 2;
            gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTH;
            gbc.fill = GridBagConstraints.NONE;
            gbc.insets = new Insets(4, 0, 4, 0);
            contentPanel.add(btnCancel, gbc);
            btnCancel.setEnabled(cancelEnabled);
        } // cancel*/
    } // funciton

    public boolean isCanceled() {
        return canceled;
    }

    public void showDialog() {
        showDialog(false);
    }

    public void showDialog(boolean modal) {
        JDialog dialog = new JDialog(parentComponent, true);
        initDialog();
        dialog.getContentPane().add(contentPanel);
        dialog.setSize(400,400);
        dialog.setDefaultCloseOperation(JDialog.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
        if (modal) {
            dialog.setAlwaysOnTop(true);
        }
        dialog.setVisible(true);
        dialog.toFront();
    }

    public void cancel() {
        canceled = true;
    }

}

Answer 1

Try setOpaque(true) on the Label, this should cause it to clear its background.