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I'm trying to create a chess interface in Java and I'm using a JLayeredPane to put the pieces on top of my chessboard image. The problem is that the pieces are not added to the layered pane.

This is the code for my DragImage class (every piece is going to be an instance of this class which you can drag and drop on the chessboard).

class DragImage extends JComponent implements MouseMotionListener {
        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
        int imageWidth = 52, imageHeight = 52;
        int imageX, imageY;
        Image img;

        public DragImage(Image i) {
            img = i;
            repaint();
            addMouseMotionListener(this);
        }

        public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
            imageX = e.getX();
            imageY = e.getY();
            repaint();
        }

        public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
        }

        public void paint(Graphics g) {
            Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;

            g2.drawImage(img, imageX, imageY, this);
        }

    }

And this is the code for the JPanel.

The image addresses are correct but they aren't showing up on the panel.

class MyPanel extends JPanel {
        private JLayeredPane layeredPane;
        private JLabel imageContainer = new JLabel();
        private ImageIcon img;

        MyPanel() {
            super();
            img = new ImageIcon("chessboard.png");
            this.imageContainer.setIcon(img);
            this.layeredPane = new JLayeredPane();
            layeredPane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(416, 416));
            layeredPane.add(imageContainer, 50);
            imageContainer.setBounds(0, 0, img.getIconWidth(),
                    img.getIconHeight());
            int pozx = 52, pozy = 52;
            for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
                for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
                    if(tabla[i][j]!="--"){
                    DragImage img = new DragImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("pieces\\" + tabla[i][j] + ".png"));
                    //System.out.println("pieces\\" + tabla[i][j] + ".png");
                    img.setBounds(pozx,pozy,img.imageWidth,img.imageHeight);
                    layeredPane.add(img,100);   //this doesn't work
                    }
                    pozx+=52;
                }
                pozy+=52;
                pozx=52;
            }

            this.add(layeredPane);
        }
}

...

frame = new JFrame();
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setSize(800, 600);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
panel = new MyPanel();
frame.add(panel);
frame.pack();
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    For better help sooner, post an [SSCCE](http://sscce.org/). – Andrew Thompson May 18 '13 at 13:36
  • Create frame, set size, add panel, pack, setvisible. – arynaq May 18 '13 at 14:08
  • *"The image addresses are correct but they aren't showing up on the panel."* Really? Try this experiment. `String path = "pieces\\" + tabla[i][j] + ".png"; File f = new File(path); System.out.println("File exists: " + file.exists());`. I'll **bet** that prints `File exists: false` (after you fix any small typos. that might prevent it from compiling).. – Andrew Thompson May 18 '13 at 14:29
  • See also this working [example](http://stackoverflow.com/a/2562685/230513) and [variation](http://stackoverflow.com/a/2563350/230513). – trashgod May 18 '13 at 14:52
  • @AndrewThompson That printed true for all the files so that's not the problem... – Adrian Buzea May 18 '13 at 19:55
  • @trashgod thank you that helped a lot. i used code from that example and it works. problem solved. – Adrian Buzea May 18 '13 at 21:15
  • You can [answer your own question](http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/17463/163188). – trashgod May 18 '13 at 22:38

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first use the Layeredpane then attach two panels one for image and another panel for components and the second panel must be palete layer then the components will appear..

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