having some minor problems

[Martin vanPutten]

I havn't done an applet in a while. Can somebody point out why I'm not viewing anything within the applet? Also, I want to double buffer it but I had to comment out the getContentPane(). It says that it could not read it. Any reason for that as well?

  /**
 * @(#)Source.java
 *
 * Source Applet application
 *
 * @author Martin / Jimmy 
 * @version 1.00 2006/12/6
 */
 
import java.awt.*; 
import javax.swing.*;
import java.applet.*;
 
public class Source extends Applet 
{  
 
public void init()  
 {  
 
 //getContentPane().add(new Painter());
 
 }
 
private class painter extends JPanel 
{

public void paint(Graphics g)  
{  

    int screenRes = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenResolution();
    int fontSize = (int)Math.round(40.0 * screenRes / 72.0);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
setBackground(Color.black);  

}

} 
 
}  

[Keith Lynn]

First, you probably meant to extend JApplet.

Also notice the capitilization of Painter.

[Vishal Mungi]

If you extend applet you add components directly :

add(new painter());

If you extend JApplet you add components to the content pane:

getContentPane.add(new painter());

when extending a JPanel you override the paintComponent method & not paint
(http://leepoint.net/notes-java/GUI-lowlevel/graphics/40drawingpanel/10drawingpanel.html)

Also, dont forget to call super.paintComponent first.
[ December 07, 2006: Message edited by: Vishal Mungi ]

[Martin vanPutten]

The getContentPane compiles now... and Painter class is capitalized but it still doesn't give me a black background. I feel like i'm missing something. Any suggestions?