Trouble setting button position on DocumentWindow

General JUCE discussion
1

I am new to Juce and am using it to prototype some software. Currently I have followed Jules’ guide for creating a first project using the DocumentWindow class. I then want to add a ToggleButton component and position it. I have the button being created and drawn correctly but can not get it to set the position. I think I am missing something about the setContentComponent call.

Here is the relevant code from within the MainAppWindow.cpp constructor.

{

setResizable (false, false); // resizability is a property of ResizableWindow, which is 
                    // a parent class of DocumentWindow (which is our base class), 
                    // so we have access to this setting here.

setTitleBarHeight (20); // Set the height of the titlebar on our window.

// create the main component, which is described in MainComponent.h
MainComponent* contentComponent = new MainComponent ();

setContentComponent (contentComponent);

Octave1 = new ToggleButton (T("octave1"));
setContentComponent(Octave1, true, false);
Octave1->setTopLeftPosition(20,100);
Octave1->setButtonText (String::empty);
Octave1->addButtonListener (this);

}

2

you’re setting the button as a content component. You should be adding the button to your previously set content component.

Octave1 = new ToggleButton (T("octave1")); 
contentComponent->addAndMakeVisible(Octave1); 
Octave1->setTopLeftPosition(20,100); 
Octave1->setButtonText (String::empty); 
Octave1->addButtonListener (this);
3

Thanks, I knew it was something stupid on my part.