Painting on a JPanel - HELP!

Re: Painting on a JPanel - HELP!

Does it help to put this code in the paint() method instead?
I have had trouble with re-painting using swing before, and found that
putting it all inpaint() helped.

Steve
"Graham Norman" <[email protected] k> wrote in message
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> I have overridden the following method with:
>
> protected void paintComponent( Graphics g)
> {
> super.paintComp onent(g);
> Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
> JigsawPiece tmp;
>
> while (hasNext())
> {
> tmp = nextJigsawPiece ();
> g2.drawImage(tm p.getPartialIma ge(), tmp.getRelative XCoord(),
> tmp.getRelative YCoord(), this);
> }
> }
>
> When I load my program, nothing appears. I go to resize the window and the
> image appears, I move or resize the window again and it dissappears.
>
> Pleeease help me,
> Graham.
>
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Re: Painting on a JPanel - HELP!

Graham Norman wrote:
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> I have overridden the following method with:
>
> protected void paintComponent( Graphics g)
> {
> super.paintComp onent(g);
> Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
> JigsawPiece tmp;
>
> while (hasNext())
> {
> tmp = nextJigsawPiece ();
> g2.drawImage(tm p.getPartialIma ge(), tmp.getRelative XCoord(),
> tmp.getRelative YCoord(), this);
> }
> }
>
> When I load my program, nothing appears. I go to resize the window and the
> image appears, I move or resize the window again and it dissappears.
>
> Pleeease help me,
> Graham.
>
>[/color]
You need to override getPreferredSiz e() to return the preferred size of
the JPanel.