将标签添加到Scala Swing面板时出现类型不匹配错误

Question

I have this Class extending FlowPanel and I'm trying to add Labels into it:

import java.awt.{Label, Color}
import scala.swing._
import scala.util.Random    

class MyPanel extends FlowPanel{
  val dimension = new Dimension(600,400)
  maximumSize = dimension
  minimumSize = dimension
  preferredSize = dimension
  foreground = Color.white
  background = Color.LIGHT_GRAY

  def drowLabels(size: Int) = {
    for(i <- 0 until size){
      contents += new Label()
      revalidate();
      repaint();
    }
  }

But I get an error message:

type mismatch;
found   : java.awt.Label
required: scala.swing.Component
    contents += new Label()
                ^

But for example if I change new Label() to new Button() , everything works fine. Actually I can't add Label to any kind of container, there are always some errors.

I have been trying to find answer for an hour, but without succeed.

Answer 1

I think the message is telling you that a SWING component is expected which java.awt.Label is not (look at your imports). The SWING label is javax.swing.JLabel , so fixing the imports as follows should solve your problem:

import java.awt.Color
import javax.swing.JLabel
import scala.swing._
import scala.util.Random

class MyPanel extends FlowPanel {
    ...
    def drowLabels(size: Int) = {
        for(i <- 0 until size){
            contents += new JLabel()
            revalidate();
            repaint();
         }
    }

Answer 2

It appears that the above solution no longer works: scala swing containers will not allow you to add elements unless they inherit from scala.swing.Component class. Therefore, one has to either use components from scala swing or wrap Java components with Component.wrap(javaSwingComponent) call.

See this question for more details .