Painting to a specific component

[Mark Owens]

Hey all,
Actually I wish to draw a set of images to the screen, each into its own panel. I have the layout manager and components all set up, but how do I tell a paint() method or drawImage() call which specific component I wish to send it to?
All help appreciated...
Mark

[Pawel Veselov]

Hmm, to draw an image on a component you should have an access to this component's Graphics representation.
So, if you want to draw an image per component, modify it's update(Graphics) method.

class MyButton extends java.awt.Component {

Image im;
MyButton(Image im) {
super();
this.im = im;
setSize(im.getWidth(null), im.getHeight(null));
}
public void update (Graphics g) {
g.drawImage(im,0,0,null);
}
}

That's it. In the case above image should be preloaded.

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With best of best regards, Pawel S. Veselov ( aka Black Angel )

[Betty Reynolds]

This topic is very similar to the question I have. I am working in VAJ. I have several components in a container already (I have no control over the container The top level was provide by VAJ when I set up the Applet. I want to isolate an area in this container and draw a set of images to that area. The images are stored in an array that was loaded from a directory during initialization.
The number of images can vary each time repaint() occurs, but basically I want them displayed side to side one after the other.
I tried setting up a panel and drawing the images to that, but it didn't work.
Does anyone have any suggestion.?