Applet doesn't repaint properly

[Steve O Smith]

This applet doesn't repaint properly after it's minimized or another window gets on top of it.

import javax.swing.JApplet;
import java.awt.*;

public class Shadow extends JApplet
{
   public void paint(Graphics page)
   {
      page.setColor(Color.gray);
      page.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 36));
      page.drawString("Steve Smith", 50, 50);
      page.setColor(Color.black);
      page.drawString("Steve Smith", 48, 48);
   }
}

Don't I need a repaint or update method here?

[Ulf Dittmer]

You shouldn't use the paint method with Swing, but the paintComponent method; paint is for AWT components.

[Steve O Smith]

Wow. That's the method used in the textbook for my intro to compsci class. The examples in the book have the same problem.

Didn't the author think to, oh I don't know, google this or ask on a forum? Jeez.

Thanks. I'll look into paintcomponent().

[Darryl Burke]

JApplet doesn't have a paintComponent(...) method. Custom painting in Swing is best done in an extended JComponent or JPanel, by overriding the paintComponent(...) method mentioned by Ulf. More here: Lesson: Performing Custom Painting.