equivalent for awt paint method in swing?

[Jochen Opp]

Hi,

I am currently looking to find a way to draw lines and dots etc. such as the
draw and paint methods of applet.Applet do, but not within an applet, but
within a javax.swing component.

Thanks
Jo

 

[Michael Borgwardt]

Hi,

I am currently looking to find a way to draw lines and dots etc. such as the
draw and paint methods of applet.Applet do, but not within an applet, but
within a javax.swing component.

Just like Applet, Swing's JComponent is a subclass of java.awt.Component, so it
also has the paint() method. However, you shouldn't use it directly and instead
use paintComponent(). That's the only difference.

 

[Chris Smith]

Just like Applet, Swing's JComponent is a subclass of java.awt.Component, so it
also has the paint() method. However, you shouldn't use it directly and instead
use paintComponent(). That's the only difference.

Well, the other difference is that unless a Swing component can prove
that it will be covering the entirety of its area during painting, it
shoulod start out by calling super.paintComponent. I said this in my
response to the identical post in .help, but the OP multiposted so as to
make it more difficult to discuss the matter.

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