I am new to programming Java, and cannot seem to find a simple answer to this on the discussions on how to go about this. Anybody?

I have no idea what you mean.

getContentPane is not a method to be called to view but used for the getting the pane to add details.... So thee is nopoint of trying to view something using that method

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