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Hello Friends
I have an image in a panel where i try ot draw a rect over the image the the rectangle gets drawn properly. Now i want to clear the rect which was created just now is it possible?

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This is more of a GUI question, not an applet question, so I'm moving it to our AWT/Swing/GUI forum. Please find the thread there and continue the discussion.
 
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I would define a component to have an image and a rectangle, and have its paintComponent method render them both. To cause the rectangle to disappear set it to null:
 
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Hello Jeff
Thank you very much for your reply, now I am not sure how to do this can you give me an small code example. My component is a panel currently which in its paint method draws the image and this rectangle currently is drawn on the panel graphics is the mouse dragged along now how can i make the change you mentioned in this scenario?
 
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Don't get me started about those stupid light bulbs.
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