Thread: Reason for swing component overlapping?

Hello,

I am trying to make a GUI in Java AWT/Swing. I am having trouble pinpointing why my components overlap and hide each other. I am further paranoid after I grabbed a nice example file online, which worked fine, then made a marginal change and instantly started to get the same issue.

Here is a neat online example I looked at:
Java Tips - How to align your components in horizontal or vertical layout

I then eddited thus:

// place panels on frame
c.add( boxes[ 0 ], BorderLayout.NORTH );
c.add( new JButton("myButton1"), BorderLayout.NORTH);
c.add( new JButton("myButton2"), BorderLayout.NORTH);
c.add( boxes[ 1 ], BorderLayout.EAST );
...

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EDIT: of course, right after posting I notice the difference in code. Why must the components go into a "Box"? Shouldn't I be able to simply add components and have stack themselves next to each other in a FlowLayout kind of way?