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Raz Cohen
Raz Cohen

Reputation: 540

Canvas on JFrame in java

I've seen in many threads it's not recommended to mix awt and swing components. However I've seen examples in which they add the Canvas to a JFrame (No other swing components are involved). Canvas is an awt component and JFrame is a swing component, so is it ok to do so? and if not, how exactly to use the Canvas?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 965

Answers (1)

Qwerky
Qwerky

Reputation: 18435

You could get some unusual display problems with older JDKs, but mixing swing and AWT is fine nowadays. See this article: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/mixing-components-433992.html

I've written a game which used swing components for most of the UI/controls but a canvas for drawing the main game area (see https://github.com/qwerky/Towers/blob/master/src/main/java/lineup/ui/UI.java). It worked fine with no problems.

Upvotes: 2

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