Flow Layout in Applet not working in child Object

As a starting point, this simple Flow Layout works:

//*****start applet code example1****
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
public class Layout extends Applet
{
Button okButton1;

public void init()
{
setLayout(new FlowLayout());

okButton1 = new Button("OneButton");

add(okButton1);
}
}

//******end applet code example 1****

But if I try to invoke create the Layout in a child, it does not work:

//******start code applet example 2****
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
public class Layout2 extends Applet
{

LayoutChild myChild;

public void init()
{
myChild = new LayoutChild();
}
}

public class LayoutChild extends Applet
{
Button okButton1;

public void init()
{

setLayout(new FlowLayout());

okButton1 = new Button("OneButton");

add(okButton1);
}
}

//******end code applet example 2****

I'm sure it is something simple. Anyone know? Thanks.

What do you mean it doesn't work? What does it do instead? And you should only have to use 1 "Applet", I'm not sure what you're trying to do here.

I'm trying to have an Applet with many button present on say the left Nav bar. When you click on a particular button, a corresponding data entry form appears in the center of the page. Click a different button, then a different form appears.

To keep the code clean, I want each entry form to be it's own object. Thus the need to have Swing components work down at the child object level.

And by 'not working', I mean that in the second example, the swing components do not appear on the screen. (The compile works.)

I was wondering if at the child level you must specifically get the Pane of the Applet and then add the components to that pane?

What does work is if I pass the Applet obj down to the child like this:


myChild = new LayoutChild(this);


and then use the passed applet parameter to add components like this:


myParent.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
myParent.add(....


But that defeats the idea of keeping the child Object self-contained. It seems to me that the child obj should be able to manage the swing components on its own without knowing anything about the parent object.

So is there a way to add swing components to the child? Do I need to get the Applet Pane? I'm not sure how to do that...

Thanks.