Painting on a JPanel - HELP!

[Graham Norman]

I have overridden the following method with:

protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
{
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
JigsawPiece tmp;

while (hasNext())
{
tmp = nextJigsawPiece();
g2.drawImage(tmp.getPartialImage(), tmp.getRelativeXCoord(),
tmp.getRelativeYCoord(), this);
}
}

When I load my program, nothing appears. I go to resize the window and the
image appears, I move or resize the window again and it dissappears.

Pleeease help me,
Graham.

[SPG]

Does it help to put this code in the paint() method instead?
I have had trouble with re-painting using swing before, and found that
putting it all inpaint() helped.

Steve
"Graham Norman" <gc**@aber.ac.uk> wrote in message
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I have overridden the following method with:

protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
{
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
JigsawPiece tmp;

while (hasNext())
{
tmp = nextJigsawPiece();
g2.drawImage(tmp.getPartialImage(), tmp.getRelativeXCoord(),
tmp.getRelativeYCoord(), this);
}
}

When I load my program, nothing appears. I go to resize the window and the
image appears, I move or resize the window again and it dissappears.

Pleeease help me,
Graham.

[Bryan Boone]

Graham Norman wrote:

I have overridden the following method with:

protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
{
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
JigsawPiece tmp;

while (hasNext())
{
tmp = nextJigsawPiece();
g2.drawImage(tmp.getPartialImage(), tmp.getRelativeXCoord(),
tmp.getRelativeYCoord(), this);
}
}

When I load my program, nothing appears. I go to resize the window and the
image appears, I move or resize the window again and it dissappears.

Pleeease help me,
Graham.

You need to override getPreferredSize() to return the preferred size of
the JPanel.