Placing a new JPanel over a paint overriden JPanel

[Tanshaydar]

Hi, I have a term project where I'm coding a 2D game with Java.
Now, I have the case as:
I have a JPanel which implements ActionListener and overrides paint method.

My JFrame starst with a Menu JPanel. I press the Play button, then Game JPanel takes the place and game starts, but after that, I press the ESC to go back to Menu JPanel. Problem starts here, when I create a new Menu JPanel, it doesn't appear at all. The JButtons over it doesn't appear until I hover over them. And background never changes.

I call the Menu JPanel like this:

            Menu menu = new Menu();
            removeAll();
            add( menu);
            menu.requestFocus();
            menu.setVisible( true);
            repaint();

This works, I know, because when I call another JPanel from the Menu JPanel (i.e. Help JPanel) it appears with this code:

        Help helpPanel = new Help();
        removeAll();
        add( helpPanel);
        helpPanel.setVisible(true);
        repaint();

I think the repaint(); method that I call in Game JPanel has a conflict with the paint method I override in Game JPanel. I'm not into using CardLayout, because at this rate it's hard to implement.

Here, if you want to see what I mean:

[Fubarable]

Without more code, it'll be hard to guess what your problem is, but it could be that you're not calling revalidate on the container that holds the JPanels that you're swapping. If that container is the JFrame's contentPane, then you'll have to first cast it to a JPanel before calling this method, e.g.,

// swap your JPanels here

JPanel contentPane = (JPanel)myJFrame.getContentPane(); 
// or if class extends JFrame, then
// JPanel contentPane = (JPanel)getContentPane(); 

contentPane.revalidate();
contentPane.repaint();

But having said this, my main recommendation is not to swap JPanels like this but rather to use CardLayout to do the swapping for you.

Luck!

[Tanshaydar]

My main JPanel is Menu Panel within a JFrame.
When I press the Play JButton, it creates a new Game JPanel, then game starts. But when I press ESC, I want to hold game panel, and display the Menu JPanel and if I press the Continue JButton, I want to go back to Game JPanel.

[Fubarable]

My main JPanel is Menu Panel within a JFrame.
When I press the Play JButton, it creates a new Game JPanel, then game starts. But when I press ESC, I want to hold game panel, and display the Menu JPanel and if I press the Continue JButton, I want to go back to Game JPanel.

Yep -- a CardLayout would work well for this. Either have a JPanel use CardLayout as it's layout and then add it to the JFrame's contentPane or have the contentPane itself use CardLayout. The tutorials will explain how to use it.

How to Use CardLayout (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Laying Out Components Within a Container)

[Tanshaydar]

I solved the issue via override the paintComponent instead of paint itself.