Question about initial size of a JComponent

My project required drawing a fancy graph on a JComponent, which is then
added to a panel on a frame with gridbag layout. The JComponent's
paint() method relies on the size of the JComponent, or it's parent panel's size. The question is how to initialize the size of the component, as the preferred size of a JComponent is (0,0), and the panel's size can only be determined at run time. I already added component listener so that it resizes correctly when the frame is resized. But when the graph appears on the panel first time, it doesn't show itself according to the size of the panel. I have to manually resize the frame to make it fit.
The following are code fragments:
public class Graph extends JComponent
int m_width;
int m_height;
public Graph()
addComponentListener(new java.awt.event.ComponentAdapter()
public void componentResized(ComponentEvent e)
Dimension graph_size = getSize();
m_width = graph_size.width;
m_height = graph_size.height;
// tried but failed
// m_width = getPrefferedSize().width; m_height = ...
// m_width = getSize().width; m_height = ...
setSize(m_width, m_height); // how to initialize m_width, m_height?
public void paint(Graphics g)
m_width and m_height are frequently used here.

Thanks for your reply Nancy,
I understand the print resolution but I'm talking about on screen usage by browsers. I know that images are most optimized when the pixel resolution (number of pixels per side) is not more or less than the pixel resolution browsers display the image with. However with more and more monitors being produced with larger screens and denser ppi a lot of people, me included, zoom in with the browsers using Ctrl and Plus keys to see the content better. My monitor is displaying images not at approx 72 ppi but 110 ppi. This makes everything more than 30% smaller and although the text and images are much more sharper than monitors with less ppi, when things become too small they are hard to see regardless how sharp they are. For example this is how this page looks on my monitor at default view and full screen of the browser - the grey on the right is the background.
Have in mind that on monitors with ppi less than 110 the image above will appear larger than on my monitor. The next image shows the rulers in Photoshop equal the size of real life rulers on my monitor while the inclosed image shows rulers that are equal to real size ruler on another guy's monitor with less ppi screen resolution.
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