Help on removing awt components

Hi,
I have a class that extends Frame. I have two panels in it - one that contains two buttons ("add" and "remove") and the other panel is empty and has FlowLayout as it's layout manager. The panels are added to the Frame using BorderLayout.

I wrote the eventhandler for the "add" button to add a new button to the initially empty panel, each time the "add" button is clicked. I am calling validate() and pack() for the container after adding the new button. Also, I wrote the handler for the "remove" button to remove the last added button. I have got two problems.

1. When I keep adding the buttons, I can't control the size of the Frame and have the new buttons wrapped around, instead the Frame is becoming wider and wider. I tried using setSize but it doesn't work.

2. Component.remove() is not working. I am doing this from an inner class which listens to the "remove" button. I am calling validate() on the container after calling remove. But the button is not removed.

Can anyone help.

thanx in advance
JAIKISH

1. If you don't want the frame to resize, don't call pack().
2. You have to call Container.remove(Component);

Thanx for the suggestions, I want the Frame to resize only in the vertical direction when the buttons spill over to the next line. How can I do that? Right now, I am adding the components and just saying pack() so that it resizes on its own. From your suggestion, I think I will have to manually resize the Frame each time I add a new button to acheive my goal. If so how can I know whether the button has jumped to the next line ? However, I tried resizing the Frame with a hardcoded size and without calling pack, but to no avail. It refused to resize and the new button is visible only if I forcefully resize the Frame while using.

Now for the remove part of the problem, I am using Container.remove(Component), but it is not working. What can be the problem ? I added a containerListener to the panel containing the buttons and tested. componentRemoved event is not triggered at all. But I am able to remove the button by calling removeNotify, which destroys the peer component (it is not supposed to be called directly according to the documentation)

thanx
JAIKISH