Creating a transparent panel

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I need to create a panel which should be invisible but the components inside it (for example, JTextArea, JButton, etc.) should be visible. When I click on the invisible panel, it should become visible.

I can only use JRE 1.4 and nothing more than that. :(

Any idea how to create such a transparent panel???

Peter · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-27T06:18:47.857

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Transparancy is controlled with

setOpaque(false)

edited Sep 27 '13 at 06:18

answered Nov 03 '08 at 06:48

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I was under the impression that this is considered as misuse of setOpaque - see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2451990/setopaquetrue-false-java – mikera Sep 26 '13 at 10:29
that article explains how Swing got it wrong. Doesnt make it the wrong solution. – Peter Sep 27 '13 at 06:18

gizmo · Answer 2 · 2008-11-03T08:02:29.237

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JComponent.setOpaque(false) is the way to go.

edited Nov 03 '08 at 08:02

answered Nov 03 '08 at 06:46

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Creating a transparent panel

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