Draw on JPanel, Help

[carl]

Hi, I'm trying to draw using Graphics2D on a Java JPanel. Actually its a ImagePanel - a class I've extended from a JPanel, which just loads a jpeg into the panel. This part works fine....but then I want to draw on top of the JPanel, and its not showing what I'm drawing. Here is the code for the paint in the jpanel

Code:

protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
    {
        System.out.println("in paintstuff");
        super.paintComponent(g);
        if(text)
        {
            System.out.println("Here");
            Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)image.getGraphics();
            g2.drawString(textString, lastX, lastY);
            text = false;
        }

        if (image == null) return;

        switch (style)
        {
            case TILED:
                drawTiled(g);
                break;

            case SCALED:
                Dimension d = getSize();
                g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, d.width, d.height, null);
                break;

            case ACTUAL:
                drawActual(g);
                break;
        }


    }

Its definitely getting into the if(text) clause, and I've tried writing directly to the g Graphics, but that doesn't work either. "image" is just a BufferedImage storing the JPEG and whatever else I want to have drawn.

Thanks.

[hardwired]

Here you are drawing on the image

Code:

Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)image.getGraphics();
g2.drawString(textString, lastX, lastY);

To draw on the JPanel, use the panels graphic context,
not the graphic context of the image as you did above.

Code:

protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
    {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
        g2.drawString(textString, lastX, lastY);