Re: Drawing images on a JPanel

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 07 May 2009 16:13:24 -0400
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In article <4a031806$0$25069$b9f67a60@news.newsdemon.com>,
 Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> wrote:

John B. Matthews wrote:

In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905071456310.20018@vega.soi.city.ac.uk>,

[...]

Concerning paintComponent():
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/JComponent.html>

[...]

I think there is something wrong with the docs there.


Well, they _did_ misspell invoke[r]. :-)

Why would you paint a non-opaque color onto an opaque background if
the component is opaque?


In this context, I thought opaque meant "the component paints every
pixel within its bounds." But now I wonder.

I've never had to use super.paintComponent() unless I wanted whatever
was drawn by the parent. Do you know how to create these artifacts?


I _used_ to see it happening when I'd set opaque to true but fail to
paint every pixel. In retrospect, I was probably painting with a
partially transparent color.

Trying the code below, with any combination of opaque and super, I
see no problems. Of course, I could be missing the point completely
:-).


On my implementation, the example's background is gray with no yellow at
all, I think due to multiple-buffering. Graphics#clearRect() says,
"Beginning with Java?1.1, the background color of offscreen images may
be system dependent. Applications should use setColor followed by
fillRect to ensure that an offscreen image is cleared to a specific
color."

With or without super.paintComponent(g), I get interesting artifacts
with non-opaque colors as I resize this window:

<code>
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class OpaqueTest extends JComponent {

    public OpaqueTest() {
        this.setBackground(Color.yellow); // no effect
    }

    @Override
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
// super.paintComponent(g);
        g.setColor(new Color(255, 0, 0, 128));
        int w = getWidth();
        int h = getHeight();
        g.fillRect(0, 0, w, h);
        g.setColor(new Color(0, 0, 255, 128));
        g.fillRect(w/2 - w/4, h/2 - h/4, w/2, h/2);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isOpaque() {
        return true;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            public void run() {
                create();
            }

            private void create() {
                final JFrame f = new JFrame();
                f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                f.setLayout(new GridLayout(0, 2));
                for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
                    f.add(new OpaqueTest());
                }
                f.setSize(240, 180);
                f.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}
</code>

[...]

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John B. Matthews
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<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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