A couple of things I need to know (it's research) are:

Change background colour.
More control over layout of buttons and text boxes.
Adding pictures to the panes.
Adding pictures in the databse file.

This is going to be based on a CD Stock Control system if that helps any.

Any help available on the above is really appreciated.

setBackground(new Color(r,g,b) );

RGB values range from 0-255.

Here's a class I wrote for displaying a loading screen image while the rest of the program is loading (I edited some personal stuff out):

package changedforedit; import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; /** Displays a nice little logo. * @author Gump! */ public class WelcomeDialog extends JDialog { /** No description. */ private JPanel panel = new JPanel(); /** No description. */ private BorderLayout borderLayout = new BorderLayout(); /** No description. */ private ImageIcon imageIcon; /** No description. */ private JLabel imageControl = new JLabel(); /** No description. */ private String imagefileS; /** No description. * @param frame Attached frame. * @param title Title of the Frame. * @param modal No description. * @param image Name of the image being displayed. */ public WelcomeDialog(Frame frame, String title, boolean modal, String image) { super(frame, title, modal); imagefileS = image; try { jbInit(); pack(); } catch(Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } /** No description. */ public WelcomeDialog() { this(null, "", false, ""); } /** No description. * @throws Exception No description. */ void jbInit() throws Exception { panel.setLayout(borderLayout); getContentPane().add(panel); panel.add(imageControl, BorderLayout.CENTER); imageIcon = new ImageIcon(WelcomeDialog.class.getResource(imagefileS)); imageControl.setIcon(imageIcon); } /** Overloaded show method that loads up a counter thread. */ public void show() { WelcomeTimer timer = new WelcomeTimer(this); timer.start(); super.show(); } /** This thread counts down and then closes and destroys the loading picture frame. */ class WelcomeTimer extends Thread { /** No description. */ WelcomeDialog dialog; /** No description. * @param dialog Passes the pointer to the frame being watched by the thread. */ public WelcomeTimer(WelcomeDialog dialog) { this.dialog = dialog; this.currentThread().setPriority(Thread.MIN_PRIORITY); } /** No description. */ public void run() { try { sleep(15000); } catch (Exception e) {} dialog.dispose(); } } }

[This message has been edited by Gump (edited March 05, 2004).]

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More control over layout of buttons and text boxes.

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Most of my programs use a combination of GridBag and Border layouts. Some IDEs also offer some sort of absolute positioning layout. I think you can do absolute positioning with the null layout also.

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Just use this function:

getContentPane().setLayout(null);

Then specify everything else.