Java GUI, can you draw onto a JPanel?

[CrazyTn]

I am trying to make a Tetris game in java

I have a window borderlayout
West : button Panel
Center: board

board is a JPanel, and I want to add JTetris to it. Which will draw the board.
board.add(new JTetris());
contentPane(board, BorderLayout.CENTER);
But it is not being drawn.

Works when I do contentPane.add( new JTetris(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
But I want to have a border around the board. So I want to put the board into a Panel of some sort.

any help would be appreciated.


import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class JTetris extends JPanel{
public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;

JTShapes block = new JTShapes(1);
Rectangle2D.Double[] outBlock = block.getFigure();

for(int i=0;i<block.getNumBlock(); i++){
g2d.fill(outBlock[i]);
}
}

public static void main(String[] args){
//set up the Window
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setTitle("Java Tetris");
frame.setSize(550, 670);
frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter(){
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){
System.exit(0);
}
});

Container contentPane = frame.getContentPane();
contentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());

//Buttons
btnPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(3,1));
btnPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(80,100));
btnPanel.setBackground(Color.green);

newGameBtn = new JButton("New");
pauseBtn = new JButton("Pause");
quitBtn = new JButton("Quit");
btnPanel.add(newGameBtn);
btnPanel.add(pauseBtn);
btnPanel.add(quitBtn);

JPanel left = new JPanel();
left.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 670));
left.add(btnPanel);
contentPane.add(left, BorderLayout.WEST);

JPanel board = new JPanel();
board.add(new JTetris());
contentPane.add(board, BorderLayout.CENTER);

//set border
left.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Colo r.black));

frame.show();
}
//Private variables
static private JPanel btnPanel;
static private JPanel rPanel;
static private JButton newGameBtn;
static private JButton pauseBtn;
static private JButton quitBtn;
}




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


public class JTShapes extends Rectangle2D.Double{
//constructor
public JTShapes(int tFigure){
shape = tFigure;
createFigure();
}

public void createFigure(){
switch(shape){
case 1: //square
figure[0] = new Rectangle2D.Double(80.0,0.0,HEIGHT,HEIGHT);
figure[1] = new Rectangle2D.Double(20.0,0.0,HEIGHT,HEIGHT);
figure[2] = new Rectangle2D.Double(80.0,40.0,HEIGHT,HEIGHT);
figure[3] = new Rectangle2D.Double(20.0,40.0,HEIGHT,HEIGHT);
}
}

public Rectangle2D.Double[] getFigure(){
return figure;
}

public int getNumBlock(){
return numBlock;
}
//public JTShapes move(int position){

//}
private final int numBlock = 4;
private final double HEIGHT = 40.0;
private int shape;
private Rectangle2D.Double[] figure = new Rectangle2D.Double[numBlock];
/*
private Rectangle2D.Double piece1;
private Rectangle2D.Double piece2;
private Rectangle2D.Double piece3;
private Rectangle2D.Double piece4;
*/
}

[CrazyTn]

nm problem solved

[1asian2]

Hi,
Im having a similar problem adding 2D drawing to a panel. Please could you explame how you solved yours and maybe show some final code??
Thanks

[drubin]

Hi,
Im having a similar problem adding 2D drawing to a panel. Please could you explame how you solved yours and maybe show some final code??
Thanks

You can draw onto a Jpannel but this isn't the best way of drawing onto the screen. I would personally look into Canvas objects. Or creating a custom Component. (Yes I know they are similar but drawing onto JPannel just feels dirty to me)