Thread: Creating a Java Desktop Application in NetBeans

Step 1- Stop using the GUI builder.
Step 2- Check out the Swing tutorials: Trail: Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing (The Java™ Tutorials)
Step 3- Add you gui to a JPanel inside the main JFrame (if that makes no sense, see step 2).

Hi cslx99,

As Kevin has suggested. If you are fairly new to Java, you should not use a GUI builder like NetBeans at the first place. An IDE could help a lot for the beginners, as it does many things under the hood, you never know the details, how and why it is this and it isn't that... You will become lack of fundamental knowledge quickly and make yourself depends on the IDE.

So you should learn to read the Tutorial and code examples by a simple text editor to familiarize yourself with the basics.

For experienced codes, they cannot live without an IDE because it helps them to be more productivity.

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Originally Posted by cslx99

I'm not sure what you mean by GUI builder but I hard coded everything. The screen in the picture is what popped up after I ran the code.

Netbeans comes with a GUI builder where you can drag-and-drop controls onto a frame. Usually, it causes more trouble than its worth for new programmers, and it makes it really hard to help people. I see the gui builder in your background, so I assumed you were using it.

But if you coded it by hand, I'd recommend throwing together an SSCCE that demonstrates the problem, and we'll be happy to help you.