My program is running, but it isnt showing up...

[MW130]

Hey guys, I'm trying to make a simple swing program that just gives car names and stats, and it is running, and turns into an executable. I then see the Java cup icon, but it doesn't actually show anything. it then gives me a bunch of errors which I will show after the code. I appreciate all help :)
heres the code:

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

class Car extends JFrame {
	Car() {
		super("Cars");
		setSize(1000, 1000);
		setVisible(true);
		setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
	}

	int mpg;
	int mph;
	String color;

	Car(int mpg, int mph, String color) {
		this.mpg = mpg;
		this.mph = mph;
		this.color = color;
	}

	Car Ferrari = new Car(20, 200, "Red");
	Car Lexus = new Car(30, 160, "White");
	Car Honda = new Car(25, 150, "Blue");

	public void paint(Graphics m) {
		m.setFont(new Font("Helvetica", Font.PLAIN, 16));
		m.drawRect(20, 50, 960, 460);
		m.setColor(Color.BLACK);
		m.fillRect(20, 50, 960, 460);
		m.setColor(Color.WHITE);
		m.drawString("We have a " + Ferrari.color + "that gets " + Ferrari.mpg
				+ "and can go as fast as " + Ferrari.mph + ".", 30, 70);
		m.drawString("We have a " + Honda.color + "that gets " + Honda.mpg
				+ "and can go as fast as " + Honda.mph + ".", 30, 100);
		m.drawString("We have a " + Lexus.color + "that gets " + Lexus.mpg
				+ "and can go as fast as " + Lexus.mph + ".", 30, 130);
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		new Car();
	}
}

after I run this, it runs, but then it doesn't show absolutely anything. The following are the errors:

	at sun.lwawt.macosx.CWrapper$NSScreen.frame(Native Method)
	at sun.lwawt.macosx.LWCToolkit.getScreenInsets(LWCToolkit.java:357)
	at java.awt.Window.init(Window.java:498)
	at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:536)
	at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:420)
	at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:385)
	at javax.swing.JFrame.<init>(JFrame.java:180)
	at Car.<init>(Car.java:7)
	at Car.<init>(Car.java:12) // please note that this line is repeated about a quadrillion times, but for the sake of not taking up a day uploading this post, I showed it once.

Thanks guys; all help's appreciated!

[JosAH]

In another thread I gave you a link to the API documentation; did you read it? A JFrame doesn't paint itself ... (and you should use the paintComponent( ... ) method)

kind regards,

Jos

[MW130]

In another thread I gave you a link to the API documentation; did you read it? A JFrame doesn't paint itself ... (and you should use the paintComponent( ... ) method)

kind regards,

Jos

what would I do here to use paintComponent? Thank you

[JosAH]

Read the API documentation for the JFrame again and pay special attention how it handles its content pane.

kind regards,

Jos

[MW130]

Ok, I added the getContentPane().add(Car); into it, but it just says that Car is an unrecognized symbol... what else could I be doing wrong?

[JosAH]

Ok, I added the getContentPane().add(Car); into it, but it just says that Car is an unrecognized symbol... what else could I be doing wrong?

That is just crap; a Car is a JFrame itself and you can't add top level containers to a top level container. Please design your program first before you start banging that poor keyboard. It also increases the level of your questions if you get stuck and come back here again. b.t.w. Car isn't a variable itself, it is the name of a Class so what you were trying to do doesn't even make sense on the language level ...

Jos

[MW130]

That is just crap; a Car is a JFrame itself and you can't add top level containers to a top level container. Please design your program first before you start banging that poor keyboard. It also increases the level of your questions if you get stuck and come back here again. b.t.w. Car isn't a variable itself, it is the name of a Class so what you were trying to do doesn't even make sense on the language level ...

Jos

Hey, JosAH I got it to work. I simply made the car constructor in a seperate class. Thanks anyway.

[Fubarable]

You did not show your full error message, and I mean the *top* of the error message where it likely mentioned a stack overflow exception. Please don't leave important information like this out of your questions. You've got a recursion problem where you are creating new Car objects inside of Car itself which will cause your program to run out of memory.