Problem on canvas

Question

Hi
I an doing a game using swing.I kept a canvas and a panel on a frame.Panel is on the botton of the frame and canvas is on top of the frame.my canvas size is 240*270.when am drawing to canvas (i.e any shape like rectangle or circle) it is drawing perfectly.but when i am drawing an image some times it draw perfectly and some times it ignores it . if i minimize and then maximize the imaze comes
What may be the problem.I am giving my source code below.please some body tell me why it dopesn,t draw some time.
public class PokerGame extends Canvas implements ActionListener
String iconFile = "splash.png";
     Image image;
public PokerGame(CardWindow obj)
          super();
          loadImages();
          System.out.println("comming inside the constructor1 of pokergame");
          this.cardwindow = obj;
          counter = 0;
          width = 240 ;
          height = 270 ;
public void paint(Graphics g){
          drawGame(g);
private void drawGameTable(Graphics g){
     g.drawImage(image,0,0,null);
Thanks
Srikant

Answer 1

Don't use AWT components in a Swing application. Canvas is an AWT component. Use a JComponent or JPanel for custom painting. Also you should be overriding the paintComponent(..) method not paint().