JPanel setBackground(Color.BLACK) does nothing

Question

I have the folowing custom JPanel and I have aded it to my frame using Netbeans GUI builder but the background won\'t change! I can see the circle, drawing with g.fillOval()

Answer 1

You need to create a new Jpanel object in the Board constructor. for example

public Board(){
    JPanel pane = new JPanel();
    pane.setBackground(Color.ORANGE);// sets the background to orange
}