drawing on Applet

[cozsmin]

Hy all,
i have aproblem, i made a simple applet that works fine at a first glance,
so i just wanted to add some drawing on it like :

[CODE=java]
class Ap extends java.applet.App let {

java.awt.Graphi cs g;

public void start() {
g = getGraphics();
paint(getGraphi cs());
getGraphics().d rawString("ok let's get it on !!",53,94);
}

public void paint(java.awt. Graphics g) {
getGraphics().d rawString ("paint()",33,1 20);
g = getGraphics();
}
}
[/CODE]

so put this applet in a page and see that it will only paint "paint()" , not what i wrote inside start(), if i did the same with a windowed component like frame/jframe/window it had printed both "ok lt's get it on " and "paint ()"
and i want to have it done outside paint() as i need adtion triggered paintings, so i cannot rely only on paint

Kind Regards !

[JosAH]

What does 'getGraphics()' do and where does it come from?

kind regards,

Jos

[cozsmin]

What does 'getGraphics()' do and where does it come from?

kind regards,

Jos

well it comes like this.getGraphic s() , u should know that appet derives from container that has getGraphics(), if u do not know what getGraphics does in container then it is bad :)

Kind Regards

[cozsmin]

JosAH i did not mean to be meen :), i now realize that this is not a java specific forum, and i was wrong to assume u knew it all

kind regards !

[JosAH]

JosAH i did not mean to be meen :), i now realize that this is not a java specific forum, and i was wrong to assume u knew it all

No hard feelings and about that getGraphics() method, I could've looked it up.
I find it a bit strange though that you're drawing 'on your own'. When I use swing
I let the AWT thread determine when something needs to be drawn and stick
the actual drawing functionality somewere in, or derived from the paint (or
paintComponent) method. I never had to use the getGraphics method, i.e the
AWT Thread always passes a Graphics object to my paint(Component ) method ...

kind regards,

Jos

[BigDaddyLH]

I suggest:

1. moving from the old AWT to Swing
2. Switching from (J)Applets to standalone applications
3. Taking Sun's Swing tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...ing/index.html