Check if a point lies inside a rectangle

Question

Hi im making an application that displays a shape on the screen at different locations. The shape is a combination of an ellipse and a line. My problem is when i want to draw the shapes i created a method to check if the point given is contained by any other shape and if it is it should create a new point. However when the .contains(Point) method is run it doesnt reply true or false so my code just goes into an infinite loop and crashes.
Here is the checkpoint method that loops infintly
private void setPoint(Point pow) {
          boolean anythingthere = false;
          while (anythingthere==!true) {
               Rectangle test = list.getBounds();
               if (test.contains(pow)) {
                    int f = pow.x;
                    f = f+200;
                    int g = pow.y;
                    pow.setLocation(f, g);
                    System.out.println(pow);
                    f = 0;
               else {
                    if (pow.x+150 > getWidth()) {
                         pow.setLocation(50, pow.y+180);
                    anythingthere = true;
                    i++;
     }And because my shape is a combination of graphics2D shapes i created this method in its class to return the rectangle that bounds the shapepublic Rectangle getBounds() {
     bound = new Rectangle(location.x,location.y,size,size);
     return bound;
}Thanks for any help you can give im really stumped!!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Answer 1

Hi thanks for your reply's. Thanks for tips on making my code nicer and efficient ive tried to do it throughout my project so hopefully its more readable now. The problem was to do with scope like one of you said so i moved a few things round and got it working. The problem was when i called the bounds of the rectangle it was returning the bounds using the last changed point which meant that every time i tested the loop the point was inside that bound so it basically looped infinitely. One line moved and it worked perfectly.
Thanks everyone