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When I try to use AddChildComponent() for any GUI element, the child component simply disappears? For example, I have two text labels, and do this in the code: As soon as I do that, textLabel2 disappears from the interface. I have tried moving both components, setting their visibility to true, etc, but textLabel2 stays awol. Is there something super obvious I'm missing? The only documentation I found is the short javadoc description...

I think the parent component should be a container component. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial ... index.html

I have not done VMDesiner development so far, but could be a solution.

Set the position relative to the parent. That should help.

Cherry Garcia wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:20 am Set the position relative to the parent. That should help.

Yes, now I got it, thank you! But it also seems that the child component needs to be inside the parent's bounding rectangle, the rest is cut off. No problem, I just thought that the parent-child-relationship would simply mean locking the components' coordinates to each other, no matter what their initial placement is (like the "Link selected controls" option), that's what threw me off.

rsover wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 8:19 pm I think the parent component should be a container component. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial ... index.html

Yeah, indeed it looks like the parent component is treated like a container. What confused is me that you can add children to all GUI elements (text labels, buttons, etc), which don't "feel" like containers the same way a canvas does, for example.

(= Glad you got it figured out. The upcoming Piano Roll module uses child components extensively. Each note object is a VoltageRectangle inside of VoltageViewport. Hovering over a note object will add a label over the note object in order to show it's note value, for example. Should be coming up in the next month or so.