Circle not showing up in JPanel

Question

So I\'m trying to draw circles inside of the inner panel. I have a class, paintTimeUnit that creates the circle inside the panel given an xy coordinate

Answer 1

To have a component that draws a circle at a given location, properly override paintComponent as explained in oracle's tutorial:

class PaintTimeUnit extends JPanel {

    private final int xlocation, ylocation;
    private static final int W = 500, H = 300, RADIUS = 50;

    public PaintTimeUnit(int x, int y) {
        xlocation = x;
        ylocation = y;
        setPreferredSize(new Dimension(W, H));
    }

    @Override
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { //override paintComponent for custom painting
        super.paintComponent(g); //call super
        g.setColor(Color.RED);  //set painting color
        g.drawOval(xlocation, ylocation, RADIUS, RADIUS); //draw circle
    }
} 

However, as advised, it may better to have a container that draws a bunch of circles.
To achieve it you need to add a collection to store all circles to be painted such as

List<Point> circleCenters== new ArrayList<>()

You would also need to add points to that collection:

 void addCircle(int centerX, int centerY){
    circleCenters.add(new Point(centerX, centerY));
 }

and have paintComponent draw circles based on their stored centers:

public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { //override paintComponent for custom painting
    super.paintComponent(g); //call super
    g.setColor(Color.RED);  //set painting color
    for(Point center : circleCenters){
       g.drawOval(center.x, center.y, RADIUS, RADIUS); //draw circle
    }
}

Put it all together:

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
class PaintTimeUnit extends JPanel {

    private final List<Point> circleCenters;
    private static final int W = 500, H = 300, RADIUS = 50;

    public PaintTimeUnit() {
        circleCenters = new ArrayList<>();
        setPreferredSize(new Dimension(W, H));
    }

    @Override
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { //override paintComponent for custom painting
        super.paintComponent(g); //call super
        g.setColor(Color.RED);  //set painting color
        for(Point center : circleCenters){
            g.drawOval(center.x, center.y, RADIUS, RADIUS); //draw circle
        }
    }

    void addCircle(int centerX, int centerY){
        circleCenters.add(new Point(centerX, centerY));
    }
}

And use it :

 PaintTimeUnit ptu= new PaintTimeUnit();
 //add 3 circles
 ptu.addCircle(90,90);
 ptu.addCircle(150,150);
 ptu.addCircle(210,90);

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