Invoked by Swing to draw components. Applications should not invoke
paint
directly, but should instead use the
repaint
method to schedule the component for redrawing.
This method actually delegates the work of painting to three protected methods: paintComponent
, paintBorder
, and paintChildren
. They're called in the order listed to ensure that children appear on top of component itself. Generally speaking, the component and its children should not paint in the insets area allocated to the border. Subclasses can just override this method, as always. A subclass that just wants to specialize the UI (look and feel) delegate's paint
method should just override paintComponent
.