Difference between paint() and paintcomponent()?

Question

I have tried tutorials on this but I still don\'t quite understand it. Basically my question is which method is better and why? Should I use paint or pain

Answer 1

Generally speaking, when painting in Swing, it is recommended to override paintComponent.

There are a number of reasons why, one is paintComponent is painted at the bottom layer, meaning you won't accidentally wiping out any components that were rendered during the paint process - this happens a lot to people who post here.

There are a, very, few times you might need to override paint, but I would always encourage you to try making it work with paintComponent first.

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• Painting in AWT and Swing (+1 to trashgod)