Draw custom selection frame(dashed rectangle), while mouse dragging is moving

Hi All,
Maybe anyone has experience of drawing custom selection frame(dashed rectangle) for selected page items.
I have to draw a custom selection frame(dashed rectangle), when I drag mouse cursor, while left mouse button is pressed.
Thank you!
Regards.

There are two possible answers:
1. If you use the getGraphics() in your event dispatching code, then the rectangle disappears because the component you paint on gets repainted, and it has no idea about your rectangle it should paint. The painting routine should ALWAYS be written in paintComponent(Graphics gr) method. (I wish they made the getGraphics() method protected).
2. If you paint it in the write way, it might disappear because the components that it overlaps might cover it.
Now a fix:
Because you need to paint on TOP of everything in the JPanel, you can either:
1. The dirty way: overwrite the paint(Graphics gr) method of your JPanel, first call super.paint(gr) then paint the rectangle.
2. A proper way: Add a non-opaque JPanel on top of you JLayeredPane (similar to GlassPane), and paint the rectangle on it (in it's paintComponent method).
Regards,
Marcin
You're probably doing some getGraphics() drawing which is usually wrong. If a component gets repainted by the system it loses all the information
Now to the question:
Your rectangle disappears beacause the Components that are overlapping it

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