graphics object

[ima clark]

I have a class that has an inner class with a method called paintComponent(Graphic g) that accepts a Graphic object as a parameter. I am trying to call this paintComponent(Graphic g) somewhere else in the program but am not sure how to deal with the graphics object?

[Cindy Glass]

The system knows what it's graphics context is. You just need to ask it to let you in on the secret.
If you want a graphics object for the object that you are in (like if you want to call paint or something) you just do a getGraphics() and the method returns a Graphics object.
To call your method you would do:
paintComponent(getGraphics()) //gets the graphics for "this"
If you want the Graphics for a different component you do something like:
Graphics g = myComponent.getGraphics();
or whatever.

[William Barnes]

Post some code - and please use the *code* tags.

[ima clark]

Thank you !!