Problems seeing Swing

[Talion]

Erm I'm not entirely sure what my problem is, but I'm just practicing some rather simple Java stuff and i'm having issues. Just decided as a refresher i'd make a really really basic face so basic in fact well...you can see for yourself.

code:

import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Graphics; import java.awt.Graphics2D; import java.awt.Rectangle; import java.awt.geom.Ellipse2D; import java.awt.geom.Line2D; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.JComponent; public class FaceComponent extends JComponent {   public void paintcomponent (Graphics g)   {     Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;         //head     Ellipse2D.Double head = new Ellipse2D.Double(5,10,100,150);     g2.draw(head);         //eye1     Line2D.Double eye1 = new Line2D.Double(25,70,45,90);     g2.draw(eye1);         //eye2     Line2D.Double eye2 = new Line2D.Double(5,70,65,90);     g2.draw(eye2);           //mouth     Rectangle mouth = new Rectangle(30,130,50,5);     g2.setColor(Color.RED);     g2.fill(mouth);         g2.setColor(Color.BLUE);     g2.drawString("Hello World!Remember me?",5,175);   } }

As you can see, just refreshing myself on really really simple things >>;

code:

import javax.swing.JFrame; public class FaceViewer {   public static void main(String[] args)   {     JFrame frame = new JFrame();     frame.setSize(300,400);     frame.setTitle("Hello Face");     frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);     FaceComponent component = new FaceComponent();     frame.add(component);     frame.setVisible(true);   } }

This is what i've done to run it. I assumed that would work, and it compiles fine and runs itself, but when it does it's just a blank screen. Am I missing something here? :S I hate to ask such a question but the sooner I remember all this stuff the better and i'm not above asking for help in relearning stuff i've forgotten Please help? If i'd like to move on to bigger and better things >>; but if I can't even run this properly kind of hard....hm, hopefully by the time someone answers i'll have figured it out myself. >>;;i

[Aziz]

Not quite sure, but it could probably be something to do with the fact that you're using a JComponent. Usually you can just subclass JPanel. See if that makes a difference.