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hi,

how can i use a JPanel in a way to be able to draw on it in the first place and then add components to it?

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Subclass JPanel and override paintComponent:

I've written plenty of custom JComponents that paint graphics,
but I've never had to combine graphics with being a container with children.
What are you trying to do?
 
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hi Jeff,

thanks for your reply. i am trying have a GUI frame, for example a login screen, that has a nice image on the background, but on the same time this GUI would have textfields and buttons on them.
It is possible?

thanks.
 
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Yes, it's possible, but I think the code should be more like this:
 
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I did this a while ago, see here.

You don't need to set the panel to opaque, or draw the image first - the controls take precedence over the image.
 
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you could just make a subclass of JPanel that takes an Image as I have done. Any Components will be placed overtop the image.

In whatever class you want to use it in, you simply write ImagePanel = new ImagePanel(img);
 
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sorry, please look at the corrected code. Good luck!

ImagePanel panel = new ImagePanel(img);
 
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Don't forget to call super.paintComponent(g), unless you explicitly do not want that (but most of the times, you do).
 
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