Paiting on a panel

Java 2D
#1

Hi all,
Blah^3 screenies of his editor gave me ideas, lots em having to rely on painting to a panel.

The reason I would like to paint onto a panel is because id like to combine buttons/tabs…etc on other panels to transform that paintablePanel.

Can anybody direct me, or even better, provide me with some code to see how its done?

thx

#2

The simplest way is to override the paint( Graphics ) method and do whatever painting you want to do there.
The Graphics object that gets passed in is what you will need for all of your painting needs.

#3

It’s usually better to override paintComponent(…). Then you can still set the border in the usual way and it will be painted.

Cheers

#4

cool, so would making a ImagePanel ( i couldn’t think of a better name) that I would pass an image down to and it would render the image onto itself?


public void setImage(Image img) {
   this.img = img;
}

public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
  super.paintComponent(g);
  g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, null);
}

Is that the kind of thing you would do?