How to paint outside of paintComponent?

It depends what you mean and why you need it. For example, it is possible to create a BufferedImage get the Graphics2D object Graphics.paint() everything that should be on the image, then drop the image into a JLabel.

It depends what you mean and why you need it. For example, it is possible to create a BufferedImage, get the Graphics2D object, Graphics.paint() everything that should be on the image, then drop the image into a JLabel. But since I do not know what you are trying to achieve (as opposed to what you are trying to do) I cannot know if that answer solves the unstated problem.

I found out how to solve this issue. What I did was make JPanel an inner class to my JFrame class. In JPanels paintComponent I had it calling a method from the outer class which did some updating of the graphics, by passing paintComponents Graphics2D object.

This has allowed me to paint "outside" of paintComponent, just as I needed.

1 You should NEVER do this. All painting code should be contained in the The paintComponent() method or a child method that is invoked by the paintComponent() method. You should NEVER invoke this child method directly.

If you think you need to do this then you have a wrong design for your program. – camickr May 8 at 15:09.

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