About Canvas and Swing

[Shay Gaghe]

Hi Guys!
im using Swing interface. i know that i shouldnt use AWT and Swing components together although its possible.
i extending the Canvas class and i draw an Image inside ,in mt interface i add the Canvas to a Jpanel. my question are ; sould i be worry about using the Canvas and thw Swing component in the same interface?
what benefits i get by using Canvas and can you suggust about good(Swing) alternative?
thanks

[Gregg Bolinger]

The only real problem I ran into was when I had a Canvas and then a JMenu. The JMenu would appear behind the Canvas.
So I switched to just using a JLabel instead of Canvas. Everything works.
You might try setting the Canvas to the MIN_VALUE and see if that puts it behind everything correctly if you have a similar problem. I never did try it.

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Happy Coding,
Gregg Bolinger

[Vinod Venugopal]

You can override the paintComponent() method & draw on the JPanel directly.