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()

Answer 1

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;
    }
}