drawing text within a JPanel

Question

I\'m looking for the most basic description of how to draw text within a JPanel. I know there are a billion tutorials out there but none of them are clicking with me and I h

Answer 1

Create an inner class that extends JPanel inside your Main class:

class MyPanel extends JPanel {

    @Override
    protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        g.drawString(Integer.toString(avg), 75, 75);
    }

}

Then you need to call repaint on that panel after calling computeAverage() in actionPerformed:

//event handling
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    if (e.getSource() == avgBtn) {
        computeAverage();
        panel.repaint();
    }
}