My manual repainting gets erased by SWING!

Question

Greetings JAVA Guru's!
I am writing a JAVA APP that extends JFrame. My App has a menu bar that opens both a JDialog and a JFileChooser. My Problem is I need to use "Custom repainting" and I cannot get this to work right. This is the first time I have mixed a menu bar, Jdailog,and Jfile Choosers with "Custom repainting".
Swing already handles the painting for the Jmenu, Jdailog, Jfilechooser and I would like to manually update the remainder of the JFrame. Currently, I directly call PaintComponent(g) or Repaint() and my Image objects are drawn correctly on the JFrame (can be seen with rreeeaalllllyyy long delay). Except, Swing automatically updates the JFrame and erases all my "Custom Painting" once the delay ends.
Should I be calling Repaint() from the event Displatching thread? If so, how do I do this? How do I make this work without fighting against the Automatic Swing Painting Model?
Any Ideas or Suggestions will be greatly Appreciated!
-Chibi_neko

Answer 1

I call the paintComponent(g) Method as follows:
g=getGraphics();
paintComponent(g);
AND I override paintComponent as Follows:
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
if (tileSetImage !=null){
g.drawImage(tileSetImage, 0, 0, contentPane);
// My delay is below.... I pop up an Option Pain
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(contentPane, "Repaint OK", "Repaint OK",OptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
}else{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(contentPane, "Error Repaint ", "Error Repaint",JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
}