Does Each Shape requre a new Panel?

[dvreed77]

Hi,

I've been trying to search the net on this topic and haven't had much luck. I am trying to draw a variety shapes each having different stroke sizes etc.

The way I am doing it now doesn't seem to be very efficient. I am creating a new class that extends jPanel and then draw my shape under the paint method. Am I going to have to do this for every little shape?

Can't I have one class with many different paint methods or something? Like paintRect or paintLine, and then in the paintRect I call g2.draw(new Rectangle2D(...)). This doesn't work but I think I want something like that.

Any help would be great. Thanks everyone.

[Humbly]

All you need is one JPanel.
You can then use the paintComponent method to draw as many shapes as you want in that method.

private static class ExamplePanel extends JPanel {
      public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
         super.paintComponent(g);
         g.drawString( "Hello World!", 20, 30 );
      }
   }

[dvreed77]

Thanks Humbly,

So unless Im missing something huge here, I still don't see how this will work.

If I draw multiple shapes with this they all have to have the same linewidth right? What if I want shapes with different linewidths? Or if I want to set different opacities on each shape.

[NRitH]

Thanks Humbly,

So unless Im missing something huge here, I still don't see how this will work.

If I draw multiple shapes with this they all have to have the same linewidth right? What if I want shapes with different linewidths? Or if I want to set different opacities on each shape.

No. In paint(), set the opacity, line width, etc. on the Graphics object, paint the first Shape, set the Graphics properties for the next Shape, draw the next Shape, etc.