[RedHelix]

Heyo,

I'm currently working on an assignment where my program basically has to read PGN. (You know, that notation that records chess moves.) In terms of all the back-end stuff, it works. It reads PGN and plays out the games beautifully.
Well, as beautiful as a command prompt interface can get anyways. That's why I imported my project into Netbeans and started building a simple GUI for it. Now, I'm a newbie of newbies when it comes to GUIs. I've been making some progress, but I can see I'm going to hit a brick wall pretty soon. So, a few quick questions if you guys don't mind:

So far, I've got a JFrame with an 8X8 GridBagLayout of JPanels with a button. I even colored the JPanels to be black and white. What I want to do is:

-Increase the size of all the individual JPanels
-Possibly put images of the chess pieces in the JPanels. If I can't, letter values will do fine.
-Maybe get a basic understanding of how I can make a mouseclick action on the button affect the pieces assigned to each panel. (In other words, move them around and such.)

Just for visual emphasis, here's a picture of my project so far: