Thread: ChessBoardView with JLabel squares doesnt fill the JPanel

Hi guys

i am working on a chessboard. I want to fill the JPanel squares (64) with ImageIcons. When i use the Jpanel setBackgroundColor it works just fine. But when i want to use a JLabel with image i get the wrong result
this is what is looks like and it should fill the whole board with squares.

chessboard.jpg

The following is my code, what am i doing wrong?

 
package view;
 
import java.awt.*;
 
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
 
import controller.Controller;
 
public class ChessBoardView extends JPanel
{
    private final static ImageIcon DARK_BROWN = new ImageIcon 
    (ChessBoardView.class.getResource("assets/sqb.gif"));
    private final static ImageIcon LIGHT_BROWN = new ImageIcon 
    (ChessBoardView.class.getResource("assets/sqw.gif"));;
    private JLabel sqb;
    private JLabel sqw;
 
	public ChessBoardView (Controller controller)
    {
 
        Dimension boardSize = new Dimension(300, 300);
 
        setLayout( new GridLayout(8, 8) );
        setPreferredSize( boardSize );
        setBounds(0, 0, boardSize.width, boardSize.height);
 
        sqb = new JLabel (DARK_BROWN);
        sqw = new JLabel (LIGHT_BROWN);
 
        for (int i = 0; i < 64; i++) {
            JPanel square = new JPanel( new BorderLayout() );
            super.add( square );
 
            int row = (i / 8) % 2;
            if (row == 0)
 
            square.add( i % 2 == 0 ? sqw : sqb );
            else
            square.add( i % 2 == 0 ? sqb : sqw );
        }
 
    }  
}

I allready fixed it. I make new JLabels when i add them to the square an anonymous object