The tags you're looking for are [ code ] and [ /code ] but remove the spaces in the tags! Put that around your code and the forum software will pretty print it for you.
Also, wherever you read which method to override for JComponent is wrong. You should be overriding paintComponent() in virtually all circumstances. The clip will be set automatically in the Graphics object passed to paintComponent. [Message sent by forum member 'fred34' (fred34)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=286991 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".