I have made a panel and then added components to the panel. I then added the panel to a JScrollPane, which was added to a JFrame... The problem is that all the components in the panel appear to be frozen. They do respond to mouse clicks and key presses, but the changes are not made visible until the frame is repainted ( for ex. if i type something in one of the JTextFields i have, nothing appears to happen, but when i minimize the frame and then restore it, it shows the change, but the JTextField is still frozen. ) Any idea what is causing this problem... anyone?