Colouring a rectangle

[bachir samir]

Hi

This is my first post, I want to draw a rectangle with a blue colour, but the problem is that the method is not recognized (this thing drives me mad) can you please help me to set the colour.

 import java.awt.*;

public class MonRectangle extends Rectangle {
	//Les coordonnées
	int PosX, PosY ;
	int width, height;
	//Constructeur
	public MonRectangle(int PosX, int PosY, int width, int height){
		setSize(width,height);
		setLocation(PosX,PosY);
		setVisible(true); // cannot find symbol
		setBackground(Color.blue); // cannot find symbol
	}
}
	   

Thank you in advance.

[Paul Clapham]

Look in the API documentation for the java.lang.Color class and you will find a list of the valid constant values. And remember that Java is case-sensitive, in other words "blue" and "Blue" and "BLUE" are three different things.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Moving to our GUIs forum.

[Rob Spoor]

Paul Clapham wrote:Look in the API documentation for the java.lang.Color class and you will find a list of the valid constant values. And remember that Java is case-sensitive, in other words "blue" and "Blue" and "BLUE" are three different things.

Color.blue and Color.BLUE are both supported. The problem is that Rectangle has no method called setBackground.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Wouldn't you override the paintComponent() method and call the fillRectangle() or similar method of the Graphics object?
Remember to write super.paintcomponent(g); as the first statement in the paintComponent method.