How to use graphics

[Mattedatten]

Hey all

Can I get some help how to call a graphics-method?
I mean, how to make it run in a good way?

Is there any other way to do this than in an applet?
Drawing Geometric Primitives (The Java™ Tutorials > 2D Graphics > Working with Geometry)
^ I mean this code:

public void paint (Graphics g) {
    Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
    ...
}

How to call it so it will run? (Ok, the one that i quoted isn't a visible object(?), but if it was, how to run it?)

Sorry for messy post
But I'm in school, and this is a lesson where we aren't doing anything ^^
Still I wouldn't want the teacher to see

///M~

[masijade]

I have no idea with what you mean by "how to run it". If you mean how would you execute that method, then all I can say is, you don't. That is done by the framework itself (Swing or AWT), when the GUI is drawn. And if you're using Swing, you don't override that method, at all, you override paintComponent.

[Mattedatten]

I have no idea with what you mean by "how to run it". If you mean how would you execute that method, then all I can say is, you don't. That is done by the framework itself (Swing or AWT), when the GUI is drawn. And if you're using Swing, you don't override that method, at all, you override paintComponent.

I can say that I do not have any idea what I'm talking about either

I mean that I want it to draw something, but I have no idea how to do so.

I do not want to use an applet.

So my question is simply what options I have and how to make any graphics of the code?

[masijade]

Well, go through the rest of that tutorial Trail: 2D Graphics (The Java™ Tutorials)

If it uses Applets the entire time then simply change JApplet to JPanel, wrap it in a JFrame and include the "init" and "start" actions in the main method.