BufferedImage drawstring method

[Gino Giuliani]

So I've got this class method:

	private void createTextBox() {
		Graphics g  = Game.getG();
		Font font = new Font(fontName, fontStyle, fontSize);
		g.setFont(font);
		
		height = BORDER_WIDTH*2 + g.getFontMetrics().getHeight(); 
		int stringWidth = g.getFontMetrics().stringWidth(dialog);
		width = BORDER_WIDTH*2 + stringWidth;
		
		System.out.println(height);
		System.out.println(width);
		
		image = new BufferedImage(height, width, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
		
		pixels = ((DataBufferInt)image.getRaster().getDataBuffer()).getData();
		for (int i = 0; i < pixels.length; i++) pixels[i]=0x554454;
		
		image.getGraphics().setFont(font);
		image.getGraphics().setColor(colour);
		
		image.getGraphics().drawString(dialog, BORDER_WIDTH, (BORDER_WIDTH + height));
		if (answers != null) {
			String displayAnswers = null;
			for (int i = 0; i < answers.length; i++) {
				displayAnswers += "   " + answers[i];
			}
			image.getGraphics().drawString(displayAnswers, x,
					y - stringHeight);
		}
		
		pixels = ((DataBufferInt)image.getRaster().getDataBuffer()).getData();

	}

This gets called when ever I want to create my Textbox object however what gets created is a purple box (i know that I have set the array elements to purple to begin with) however when I try to use the drawstring method to "draw a string" I get an image which looks like the gif below. I have changed the text size to various sizes but without success. The string is supposed to say "This is a test" but obviously it doesn't. I can't figure it out, please can someone help

[Stephan van Hulst]

Well, Game.getG() looks very suspicious. Where is Game getting the Graphics object from? Keeping it around outside of whatever painting method is being called by the event thread is probably a bad idea.