Creating a transparent panel

Question

I need to create a panel which should be invisible but the components inside it (for example, JTextArea, JButton, etc.) should be visible. When I click on the invisible panel, it should become visible.

I can only use JRE 1.4 and nothing more than that. :(

Any idea how to create such a transparent panel???

Answer 1

JComponent.setOpaque(false) is the way to go.

Answer 2

Transaprancy is controlled with

setOpaque(false)