How do I make my custom Swing component visible?

Question

I have no idea why it won\'t show. First I create an instance of the component and then add it to a certain element in a two-dimensional JPanel array. Then I loop through th

Answer 1

In the past, I have solved this by extending JPanel instead of JComponent. I found an good example here. Here's an adaptation of it which will draw a box:

public class Box extends JPanel {
  Color color;

  public Box (Color c, int w, int h) {
    color = color;
    setSize(w, h);
  }

  @Override
  public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
    g.setColor(color);
    g.drawOval(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
 }

 ...

This isn't exactly like your code above, but hopefully it'll get you started in the right direction!

A quick note (original response): the example above View is a JFrame which is never made visible. Instead, the class variable gameWindow is used. It would be good practice to make the top-level class the visible window.