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user1724416

Reputation: 954

How to paint graphics from multiple classes to a single panel

At the moment, I have two JPanel classes that draw images and shapes to a JFrame (I will have more in the future), I'm doing this to make things organised.

At first I tried to add each JPanel to the JFrame, but one JPanel would paint over the other.

Each class should be able to call other classes that may draw images to screen as well.

The problem I have is that I cannot get them to draw to the screen.

Should I use paintComponent or paintAll? And how should they be used?

Thank you for any help :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 981

Answers (1)

Reimeus
Reimeus

Reputation: 159754

It sounds as though you are adding both panels to the same location in the JFrame probably in the BorderLayout.CENTER position. One solution is to use a GridLayout with 2 columns for the JFrame and add the 2 panels.

paintComponent is the correct method to override in your panels.

Follow the custom painting trail to see how it should be used.

Upvotes: 2

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