Simple drawing on a JPanel

[Catfish1]

Hi
I am having problems drawing onto a JPanel. All I need basically is to be able to draw a 9x9 grid onto a jpanel. My problem is I can't even get it to draw one line. I need to make this as an application so here is the basic code I'm trying to use

import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;


public class SamplePan extends JFrame
{
	JPanel main;

	public SamplePan()
	{
		super();
		setSize(500,500);
		main = new JPanel(new GridLayout(3,3));
		add(main);
	}

	public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
	{
                super.paintComponent(g);
		g.drawLine(100,100,300,300);
	}


public static void main(String[] args)
{
	SamplePan mySud = new SamplePan();
	mySud.setVisible(true);
}
}

The super.paintComponent(g) is commented out currently because if i uncomment it it gives me an error saying cannot find symbol, why I'm not sure. The way I see it, the error could be that it isn't drawing on the JPanel, but then I've removed the JPanel and it still doesn't draw. Or that it doesn't actually call the paintComponent() method. I've tried calling repaint() but it didn't change anything. I'm sorry for sounding obtuse here, I've never used graphics with Java before really
Thanks

[JosAH]

You're trying to draw on a JFrame or any of its superclasses; read the API documentation for the JFrame class and see if it can draw anything; it can't. You have to subclass the JPanel class, add it to your JFrame and draw on that JComponent.

kind regards,

Jos

[eRaaaa]

		main = new JPanel(new GridLayout(3, 3)){
			public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
				super.paintComponent(g);
				g.drawLine(100, 100, 300, 300);
			}
		};