Painting an object to another object before the JFrame?

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Is this possible? For I am trying it, and currently it is not working…

Won’t do as last time and post all the code :slight_smile:

Here’s the object with the paintComponent():

    public Platform() {
    }
    
    @Override
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        
        g.setColor(Color.gray);
        g.fillRect(0, 0, getBounds().width, getBounds().height);

The Platform-object is created first here:

    private class Level extends JPanel implements KeyListener, ActionListener {
        Platform ground = new Platform();
        Platform p1 = new Platform();
        Platform p2 = new Platform();
        Platform p3 = new Platform();
        
        public Level() {
            setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 400));
            
            ground.setBounds(0, 380, 400, 20);
            p1.setBounds(150, 200, 100, 20);
            p2.setBounds(100, 300, 200, 20);
            p3.setBounds(100, 360, 40, 20);
            
            add(ground);
            add(p1);
            add(p2);
            add(p3);
            
        }

(This private class does also have a paintComponent(), is that the problem…?)

Then the Level object is added to the JFrame in the superclass.

The mechanics of the platformer works just as I want it now, but having invisible platforms bothers me a bit : D

#2

I… would start by not making the platforms Swing objects… O_O

#3

Yeah, you shouldn’t be playing around with Swing components. They’re not meant to be moved around and manipulated like that :S

Make Level extends JComponent and make Platform not extend anything, but keep a paint or paintComponent method. Then you directly call the Platform’s render methods from Level’s paintComponent.