How to make my code more modular? Please see thread.

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How do I go about doing something like the example below? Please see example.
Example of current form
My current method of painting to a component is as follows:
public class Pane extends JPanel{
public void paint(Graphics g){
... (all painting is done in here) ...
}What I want to do is break the painting method into multiple methods and or classes, so my program is less cluttered and more modular. For instance,
Method 1
public class Pane extends JPanel{
public void paintCustomButtons(Graphics g){
// (all painting of my custom buttons are done in here) ...
public void paintOtherComponents(2Graphics g){
// (all other painting is done in here) ...
}Or should I break it up into classes, the headers of those classes are:
Method 2
public class ButtonComponents extends JComponent
public class OtherComponents extends JComponent
//and then have a panel that contains all those components like so
public class Pane extends JPanel{
Pane(){
add(ButtonComponents);
Final Questions
How can I break my painting code up? Is it possible to do method 1 or 2? If so, which would you suggest? Or would you suggest another way of organizing blocks of code?
-Thanks for any suggestions as they are much appreciated
Edited by: watwatacrazy on Feb 6, 2010 10:17 AM

Answer 1

To break the paint method up you can always do the following:
    @Override
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
        g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
        paintAxis(g2d);
        paintCrossHair(g2d);
    public void paintCrossHair(Graphics2D g2d) {
     public void paintAxis(Graphics2D g2d) {{
     }Edited by: calypso on Feb 6, 2010 1:39 PM