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[Nickburris]

When I run this code, the JButton b1 appears on the screen but the button is taking up the entire screen, instead of the set size 50x50..

Icon sb = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Start.png"));
	b1 = new JButton("", sb);
	b1.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(50, 50));
	add(b1);

("private JButton b1;" is written at the top of my code)

[ZekeDragon]

Did you set a layout in the parent container? There isn't much code, this is what I wrote as a test and the JButton goes down to it's preferred size as expected:

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class JButtonTest
{
    public JButtonTest()
    {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setLayout(new BoxLayout(frame.getContentPane(), BoxLayout.LINE_AXIS));
        Icon sb = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Start.png"));
        JButton b1 = new JButton("", sb);
        b1.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(50, 50));
        frame.add(b1);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        new JButtonTest();
    }
}