Painting

[xael]

I have successfully made a GUI, using JFrame components. But, I cannot get anything from the Paint or PaintComponent methods to show up. The following code is from a class whose parent is JPanel; but the program is not an applet, it's a desktop application, but I made the class responsible for drawing such objects a child of JPanel since doing so prevents errors in the following method:
//example start
public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
{super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2d= (Graphics2D)g;

g2d.setColor(Color.orange);
Font f = new Font("Comic Sans", Font.BOLD, 13);
g2d.setFont(f);
g2d.drawString("hi", 100, 100);

Rectangle2D.Float box = new Rectangle2D.Float(1F,1F, 100F,100F);

g2d.draw(l);
}
//example end

What am I doing wrong? Nothing will show up... any ideas appreciated!

[xael]

PS, i get an a semi-error(orange underlining) saying I need to apply override annotation, which has no effect whatsoever. I've also tried using paint() instead to no avail

[Fubarable]

It could be many things such as the JPanel being too small, not being added to the JFrame, or being covered by something else. Bottom line is it's hard to tell what's wrong without seeing compilable and runnable code.

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Much luck!

[Fubarable]

Interestingly (to me at least), I made a small program similar to yours, and it took a curiously long time to load:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import javax.swing.*;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class XaelPanel extends JPanel {
   private Rectangle2D box = new Rectangle2D.Float(1f, 1f, 100f, 100f);
   private static final Font MY_FONT = new Font("Comic Sans", Font.BOLD, 20);
   
   public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
      super.paintComponent(g);
      Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;

      g2d.setFont(MY_FONT);
      
      g2d.setColor(Color.blue);
      g2d.drawString("hi there!", 110, 100);

      g2d.setColor(Color.orange);
      g2d.draw(box); 
   }
   
   private static void createAndShowUI() {
      XaelPanel panel = new XaelPanel();
      panel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(600, 400));
      
      JFrame frame = new JFrame("XaelTest");
      frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      frame.pack();
      frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
         public void run() {
            createAndShowUI();
         }
      });
   }
}

I think this may be due to the program searching for but not finding the font, and it seemed to load faster when I changed "Comic Sans" to "Comic Sans MS". Maybe it's my imagination. :)

[xael]

OK, thanks, didn't know about the code tags. So, here is all relevant code:
Main Class:

package graphix;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Main {

   public Main()
    {
   }
    public static void main(String[] args) {
Main m = new Main();
        frame f  = new frame();// the GUI and swing child 
        draw d= new draw();// this is the class with the drawing problems
    }

}

the problematic class:

package graphix;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import javax.swing.*;
// many imports are unused, I know

import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
public class draw  extends JPanel {
 
public void draw()
    {
    }
@Override
public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
{super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2d= (Graphics2D)g;

g2d.setColor(Color.orange);
Font f = new Font("Comic Sans", Font.BOLD, 13);
g2d.setFont(f);
g2d.drawString("hi", 100, 100);

Rectangle2D.Float box = new Rectangle2D.Float(1F,1F, 100F,100F);

g2d.draw(l); 
}
}

This will compile, but nothing will be drawn; I've tried disabling GUI parts in the frame class, leaving just a drawn frame, but still it's just the blank grey

[Fubarable]

How does this compile:

g2d.draw(l);

What is the "l" within draw(...) and why not draw box?

[Fubarable]

More importantly, here:

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Main m = new Main();
        frame f  = new frame();// the GUI and swing child 
        draw d= new draw();// this is the class with the drawing problems
    }

You're creating a draw object, but you're never putting it inside of a top-level container, so it will never be seen (see my example above where I put the XaelPanel into a JFrame) Also, creating a Main object via this line

Main m = new Main();

does nothing, so get rid of that line, and I've no idea what a "frame" object is. Does it extend a JFrame?

I strongly urge you to study the Swing tutorials to see how it's done. Much luck!