Hey, I'm wondering if any one can give me some advise.

Im writeing an applet which I set up all GUI components on a border
laylout. throught init();
i.e
  pane.add(cards,BorderLayout.CENTER);
  pane.add(button,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
  pane.add(options,BorderLayout.EAST);

Now later on in the code when to user recevis something from my server, I
want to add

pane.add(winOptions,BorderLayout.EAST);  

Which Im hopeing will overlap options, so that you cant see it, however
the screen is not get refreshed, and im geting a null pointer exception.
any idea's Id appreceate any input.

niall