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[Bryan J Higgs]

Small correction:

That should read:

    if you make a subclass of JPanel, let's call it MyPanel, and
    override the "*paintComponent*" method.

AWT used the "paint" method, but in Swing you should use the
"paintComponent" method.
/*
Bryan*/


andrea Valente wrote:
> Hi,
>    if you make a subclass of JPanel, let's call it MyPanel, and
> override the "paint" method
> you will be able to draw freely as many gifs as you like ;)
> And it will manage transparencies automatically, so you can do quite
> nice things with it.
>
> Cheers
>    Andrea
>
> Btw... I'm not sure if this mailing list is the right place to ask for
> this kind of help... ;)
>
>
> On 10/5/07, Lee Samuela <javaling007 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Good day to you;
>>
>>  Im new to this site, but have often seen how helpful it is to other budding
>> programmers, I have been given the task by my tutor to re-vamp the World of
>> zuul game in the book "Objects first with Java" By D.J.Barnes and Michael
>> Kolling, We have free range in design and implementation, i have decided to
>> discard the text based style of the game, incorporate a GUI, making it a
>> visually attractive game to play, i have created a graphical representation
>> of all the rooms in the game, my problem is deciding which type of panel to
>> use in blueJ, Does a JPanel allow for multiple layers of graphical content
>> to be displayed? These graphics are saved in the format .gif, will blueJ
>> allow me to layer these on top of each other, For example
>>
>>  The bottom layer shall be the floor, on top of that will be all other
>> graphics to be present in the room, such as in the library, tables will be
>> present, book cases ( including the character which will be moved around
>> these rooms via the arrow buttons ), these rooms will be viewed from a birds
>> eye view, similar to the old classic Zelda Legend of link game. as much as
>> I've tried to research on which panel to use, googled many sites!!! None
>> have told me that i am able to layer graphics on top of each other. your
>> input will be very well received even if it is to tell me I'm writing too
>> much or not enough etc.
>>
>>  Sincerely yours
>>  Leon.
>>
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