paintComponent vs paintComponents

[alacn]

hey ive imported the java.awt.*; and im trying to use the paintComponent method such as below

public void paintComponent(Graphics g){

    super.paintComponent(g);

}

however my IDE (Netbeans 6.8) doesn't seem to reconise super.paintComponent(g); and instead only allows super.paintComponents(g);
could someone explain to me whats going on please?

normally i wouldnt really mind, except however paintComponents doesnt seem to work when im drawing objects, i get nothing on the screen.

[Norm]

Add a @Override before the overridden method to verify the super class has that method.

paintComponent() is a Swing method. Use paint() in AWT.

[Fubarable]

My guess (and without more code, this is just a guess) is that you're trying to add this method to a root container such as a JApplet or a JFrame. If so, don't do this but rather do your painting in a JPanel that has a paintComponent override (using the @Override annotation as Norm recommends above).

[alacn]

ok it worked when i extended JPanel rather than JApplet, and then i went back to extending JApplet and used the @Overide and your right, JApplet doesnt have the method PaintComponent to overide.
so instead of using paintComponent i used paint which is a method in JApplet which can be overwritten. Thanks for the help guys

Just a quick question though, im i losing any functionality using paint rather than paintComponent? (cause if i am i was thinking i could somehow put the JPanel inside the JApplet and then somehow invoke the paintComponent method, if at all possible)

[alacn]

hey nevermind, i did some research and maanged this put a panel inside a Applet and thus using the original paintComponent. i havent looked into whether or not theres a difference between paintComponent and paint because cba lol, but anyways thanks for help and the @Override thingy.

[Fubarable]

You're doing the right thing as you don't want to override a JApplet's paint method and paint directly to the applet. You want to paint into a JPanel (as I suggested above) and add that JPanel to the JApplet's contentPane.