DoubleBuffering when there are buttons

[Christopher Young]

Hi. I have a problem. I am making Connect Four and just implemented DoubleBuffering to make it smooth when i repaint (as I may add animation later), and I have buttons that the user clicks on to drop tokens into the board.

However, when I implemented DoubleBuffering, it paints over the buttons I have. They are there, but invisible or flicker when moused over.

I suspect the problem is due to the fact that it is capturing the entire screen. Any way to work around that? This is how I have implemented it.

    public void draw(java.awt.Graphics g) {
        
if(IBuffer == null)
IBuffer = createImage(getWidth(), getHeight());
if(GBuffer == null)
GBuffer = IBuffer.getGraphics();

GBuffer.clearRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
java.awt.Graphics2D g2 = (java.awt.Graphics2D)GBuffer;
g2.setRenderingHint(java.awt.RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
java.awt.RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
drawGrid(GBuffer); // this draws all the stuff needed
g.drawImage(IBuffer, 0, 50, this);
    }

I can call g.drawImage(IBuffer, 0, 50, this) with a bigger number and get the buttons to show up just fine but the board is far too far away from the buttons. I want them closer.

What is a good way to implement double buffering when buttons are on the same screen?

[Norm Radder]

Who calls your draw method?
Can you put the buttons in a separate container from the component that draw draws on?

[Christopher Young]

NM. I figured out the issue.

Before I implemented DoubleBuffering, I had offset what I drew by an amount so they'd show up under the buttons. When I implrmented DoubleBuffering, I forgot to take this offset away and so was offsetting an offset even more to avoid covering up the buttons.