drawing to a paint component?

[Slippy]

basically i have called in an instance of the paintComponent on my form... as follows...

MyPanel tester = new MyPanel();
tester.setSize(800,600);

the MyPanel object is just a painComponent, but i need to draw into it... from within my current class, without hard coding it into the MyPanel class, can anyone help?

[dlorde]

basically i have called in an instance of the paintComponent on my form... as follows...

'paintComponent' is a method, not a class, so you can't have an instance of it, but you can call it...

the MyPanel object is just a painComponent, but i need to draw into it... from within my current class, without hard coding it into the MyPanel class, can anyone help?

It's not clear what MyPanel is, but it's probably a subclass of JPanel - it isn't a paintComponent, there is no paintComponent class.

If you can explain in plain English what you are trying to achieve, perhaps we can help.

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R. Feynman