Copyright Derek O'Reilly, Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland.

Graphics

All graphical output to the screen is done via the paint() method

Example with paintComponent() method (Run Applet).

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

public class PaintDemo extends JApplet
{
    @Override
    public void init()
    {
        this.setContentPane(new View());
    }

    public class View extends JPanel
    {
        @Override
        public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
        {
            g.drawLine(10, 10, 100, 50);
        }
    }
}

Copyright Derek O' Reilly, Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland.