Displaying an array on a Jpanel

[jdurwe]

I am developing a game called "Angry Tank", 2 tanks on a landscape trying to destroy eachother as fast as possible. I am adding a GUI but i have no idea how to display my landscape (stored in an array made out of elements, 26 (rows) *100(columns)). A friend of mine advised me to override the paintComponent method and draw your my elements ("x" = landscap eelement," " = ai, "A" = tankA element, "B" = tankB element , "°" = shotelement).

I am not familiar with those paintComponent method and its very hard to find good information on the web for my situation.
I would be very pleased if somebody could come some basic stuff that i can use in my application.

Thanks in advance!

[Eranga]

Landscape sense do you want to draw the background of the game? Is your background interact with the game (like obstacles and all)?

[jdurwe]

every element of the array has a draw method wich returns a char ( public char teken() { return 'x';} ) all elements implements the element interface so normally i can do like this:

landscapearray[2][30].teken

i only want to show what element (char) is on each coordinate on my panel using the "teken" method.

[DarrylBurke]

I am not familiar with those paintComponent method and its very hard to find good information on the web

Lesson: Performing Custom Painting (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing)

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