Not able to change Background color of a component

[Jing Liang]

In my JApplet, I am able to change the background color of the panel but not the currentSurface which is an instance of PaintSurface. Could someone please help me out? Many thanks

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;

public class Tanks extends JApplet
{
public static final int WIDTH = 400;
public static final int HEIGHT = 400;
private JButton button1;
private PaintSurface currentSurface = new PaintSurface();

public Tanks()
{
this.add(currentSurface,BorderLayout.CENTER);
ButtonListener b1 = new ButtonListener();
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.setBackground(Color.white);
currentSurface.setBackground(Color.white);
button1 = new JButton("Start");
button1.addActionListener(b1);
panel.add(button1);
this.add(panel,BorderLayout.NORTH);

}


public void init()
{
this.setSize(WIDTH, HEIGHT);

this.setVisible(true);


}


private class ButtonListener implements ActionListener
{


public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
if(e.getActionCommand() == "Start")
{
currentSurface.figure="Start";
repaint();
}
}


}
}


class AnimationThread extends Thread
{
JApplet c;

public AnimationThread(JApplet c)
{
this.c = c;
}

public void run()
{

}
}


class PaintSurface extends JComponent
{
String figure;


public PaintSurface()
{

}

public void paint(Graphics g)
{
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;

g2.setRenderingHint(
RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);



if(figure=="Start")
{
Shape s = new Ellipse2D.Float(20,50,250,150);
g2.setPaint(Color.BLACK);
g2.draw(s);

}


}
}

[Jing Liang]

Sorry forgot to wrap it with CODE on the first post.

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
 
public class Tanks extends JApplet
{
public static final int WIDTH  = 400;
public static final int HEIGHT = 400;
private JButton button1;
private PaintSurface currentSurface = new PaintSurface();
 
public Tanks()
{
this.add(currentSurface,BorderLayout.CENTER);
ButtonListener b1 = new ButtonListener();
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
[B]panel.setBackground(Color.white);
currentSurface.setBackground(Color.white);[/B]button1 = new JButton("Start");
button1.addActionListener(b1);
panel.add(button1);
this.add(panel,BorderLayout.NORTH);
 
}
 

public void init()
{
this.setSize(WIDTH, HEIGHT);
 
this.setVisible(true);
 

}
 

private class ButtonListener implements ActionListener
{
 

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
if(e.getActionCommand() == "Start")
{
currentSurface.figure="Start";
repaint();
}
}
 

}
}
 

class AnimationThread extends Thread
{
JApplet c;
 
public AnimationThread(JApplet c)
{
this.c = c;
}
 
public void run()
{
 
}
}
 

class PaintSurface extends JComponent
{
String figure;
 

public PaintSurface()
{
 
}
 
public void paint(Graphics g)
{
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
 
g2.setRenderingHint(
RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
 

 
if(figure=="Start")
{
Shape s = new Ellipse2D.Float(20,50,250,150);
g2.setPaint(Color.BLACK);
g2.draw(s);
 
}
 

}
}

[Ilja Preuss]

The background of a JComponent gets painted in its paint method.

Your PaintSurface class overrides that method, without containing a call to super.paint(Graphics) or drawing the background itself. So the background doesn't get painted.

Does that help?