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Thread: Need GUI help

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    Default Need GUI help

    Hey everyone I'm trying to make a brick wall and every second row has to be offset by half of the brick width. I don't know why my program isn't displaying anything all it shows is the grey background.This is my panel class
    import java.awt.*;
    import javax.swing.*;
     
    public class BrickWall extends JPanel
    {
        private final int BRICK_WIDTH = 50;
        private final int BRICK_HEIGHT = 25;
     
        public BrickWall()
        {
            setPreferredSize(new Dimension(500,500));
            setBackground(Color.darkGray);
        }
     
        public void PaintComponent(Graphics page)
        {
            super.paintComponent(page);
            int x,y;
            x=0;
            y=0;
            int xOffset = -1*(BRICK_WIDTH/2);
            int yOffset= BRICK_HEIGHT+y;
            int rows = 0;
            int rowLength = getWidth();
            while(x<=rowLength)
            {
                page.setColor(Color.red);
    		    page.fillRect(x, y, BRICK_WIDTH,BRICK_HEIGHT );
    		    x+=52;
    		    if(rows%2==1)
    		    {
    		        page.setColor (Color.red);
    		        page.fillRect (x, y, BRICK_WIDTH,BRICK_HEIGHT );
    		        x+=52;
    		    }
    		    if(x==getWidth())
    		    {
    		        x=0;
    		        y +=27;
    		        rows++;
    		    }
            }
        }
    }

    This is my driver class
    import javax.swing.*;
    import java.awt.*;
     
     
    public class BrickDriver
    {
     
    	public static void main(String[] args)
    	{
     
     
    		JFrame frame = new JFrame ("Brick Wall");
    		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation (JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
     
    		BrickWall panel = new BrickWall();
    		frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
     
    		frame.pack ();
    		frame.setVisible (true);
    	}
    }

    This is my first time dealing with GUIs so there could be a big problem.


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    Default Re: Need GUI help

    One habit you need to acquire is to always add an @Override statement before any methods of a class that you override. Add one to the BrickWall's code and see what the compiler says.
    If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.

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    Good catch. Took me longer than it should have.

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