Drawing with the mouse in the same frame as swing components

Hi - I can't find anything on the internet to help with this.

Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

I have a frame with swing components (Jbuttons) and two different classes with logical gate drawings..
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I want to be able to draw with the mouse on the same panel as these logical gates:

The below works fine if I take super.paint(g) out, but then the lightweight components mess up, I can only have it one way or the other..
Is there any way around this?

Code:

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        //Class to display gates to screen:
    class DrawCanvas extends JPanel implements MouseMotionListener
    {       
       
        public DrawCanvas()
        {
            addMouseMotionListener(this);
            //setOpaque(false);
           
            setVisible(true);
        }
        public void paint(Graphics g)
        {
            super.paint(g);  //<----

            setBackground(Color.gray);
            System.out.println("Painting the screen");
           
            //Display my AND/OR gate drawing:
            if (bAnd == true)
            {
                System.out.println("And gate has been drawn!");
                andDisplay.andGraf(g);
            }

           
            if (bOr == true)
            {
                System.out.println("Or gate has been drawn!");
                orDisplay.OrGraf(g);
            }


            //Draw Continuous line:
            g.setColor(drawingColour);
            g.fillRect(mx1,my1, 5, 5);

           
           
        }

        //Continuous drawing: (works without super.paint)

        public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e)
        {
              mouseMoved(e);
              repaint();
        }


        public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e)
        {
            mx1 = (int) e.getPoint().getX();
            my1 = (int) e.getPoint().getY();
              System.out.println("x = " + mx1);
              System.out.println("y = " + my1);
        }
   
    }

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Thanks.

You will want to search this forum, as there are many examples of how to draw. For example:

• paint-program-help
• addmousemotionlistener

Sweet, just finished the program - thanks for the reply.. the links were very helpful!