Okay...um..that is my game board so far. You can tell that the east and west are going to be pretty massive..O-o

Although when I started adding the west and east fields, they didn't fit even though I included a JScrollBar: 

So I dunno how to make it fit :( 

Okay..official pics. Not changing them anymore!

So here are the official pieces of the game! :D

Never Mind...

Oops..

I just dissected the entire reading of "How to use JLayered Panes"...

1. Swing Container with 2 depths
2. Adding components to LayeredPanes  - specify depth as an integer.
3. Higher number is something that's closer to the top. 
4. Component Overlap: Closer Components have a larger depth than Farther Components. 
5. 2 Layered Panes
1. JLayered Panes
2. JDesktop Panes
6. No Argument Constructor
7. Adding Components and Setting the Depth 
1. createColoredLabel
1. Opaque 
2. Background Colour
3. Border
4. Text
5. Size
2. add 
1. component to add
2. integer object - specifying depth
1. actual values don't matter. they are all relative values to the depth. 
3. depth
1. components at higher depth are on top of the ones with a lower depth 
2. setLayer method (component, new depth, position within depth) 
3. setLayer method (component, new depth)
8. Setting Component Position Within Depth 
1. Use Integer
2. setLayer - int
3. add (component, Integer, position within depth) 
1. Determine Componential Relationship
4. Position between -1 and (n-1) means the number of components at that depth. 
1. The smaller the position number, the higher the component
5. Using -1 is the same as (n-1) and it means the bottommost position
6. Using 0 means the topmost position within the depth
9. Layout Components
1. Default: No layout manager
2. setBounds (size, position) 
3. Possible to assign layouts (like borderLayout or gridLayout)

I think it makes much more sense. 

So perhaps in that case, I'll make the gamePieces a depth of 1; and the pawns a depth of 3. 

Layered Panes...

I was looking up JLayeredPanes on the JAVA API's and it says that it doesn't have it's own layout..but then it says that you can use a gridLayout so it all doesn't make any bloody sense!

ECK! -_-

And each of my components is 195, 295. 

The examples are as confusing as heck and they, don't make any sense! >_< 

And to make it worse than it is, the Java API says that the bottom most layer is referred to as the DEFAULT_LAYER; the second one the PALETTE_LAYER; the third one, the MODAL_LAYER; the fourth, the POPUP_LAYER, and the last, the DRAG_LAYER but the example on the Java Tutorials don't have any of those words! SO HOW ON EARTH DO YOU CREATE PANEL THAT GOES ON THE TOP? UGGH!