Assigning JButton to any location

Question

I have added my button to my Container which can hold components , everything works fine however, the clearButton.setLocation() method below is not working. any ideas?

public JButton clearButton(){ // clearButton method
    JButton clearButton = new JButton("CLEAR"); // new button of type JButton
    clearButton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200,30)); // dimension of the button
    clearButton.setLocation(400,450);
    return clearButton; // return reference to the JButton object
}

Answer 1

You have to set a absolute layout to the JPanel where you are adding the button to. Then it should work.