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Current behaviour of JPanel: If it is "empty" (no elements in it) and the layout is changed for the first time, the panel schrinks to zero dimension and must be selected from inspector and resized. I think it would be better if it stays in the way user designs it.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 94595 ***
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