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(). What's wrong?

public class Board extends JPanel{

    private Player player;

    public Board(){
        setOpaque(false);
        setBackground(Color.BLACK);  
    }

    public void paintComponent(Graphics g){  
        super.paintComponent(g);
        g.setColor(Color.red);
        g.fillOval(player.getxCenter(), player.getyCenter(), player.getRadius(), player.getRadius());
    }

    public void updatePlayer(Player player){
        this.player=player;
    }
}

Solution 1

If your panel is 'not opaque' (transparent) you wont see your background color.

Solution 2

You have to call the super.paintComponent(); as well, to allow the Java API draw the original background. The super refers to the original JPanel code.

public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
    super.paintComponent(g);

    g.setColor(Color.red);
    g.fillOval(player.getxCenter(), player.getyCenter(), player.getRadius(), player.getRadius());
}

Solution 3

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
} 

Solution 4

setOpaque(false); 

CHANGED to

setOpaque(true);

Solution 5

I just tried a bare-bones implementation and it just works:

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
            JFrame frame = new JFrame("Hello");
            frame.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200, 200));
            frame.add(new Board());
            frame.pack();
            frame.setVisible(true);
    }
}

public class Board extends JPanel {

    private Player player = new Player();

    public Board(){
        setBackground(Color.BLACK);
    }

    public void paintComponent(Graphics g){  
        super.paintComponent(g);
        g.setColor(Color.red);
        g.fillOval(player.getCenter().x, player.getCenter().y,
             player.getRadius(), player.getRadius());
    } 
}

public class Player {

    private Point center = new Point(50, 50);

    public Point getCenter() {
        return center;
    }

    private int radius = 10;

    public int getRadius() {
        return radius;
    }
}

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