Question: How to draw to an arbitray position on Screen

How can one draw to an arbitrary position on screen without getting a Graphics object from a JFrame, JDialog, etc...?
I am needing the ability to create a special kind of popup, like a tooltip, but with a special shape (Like the text spoken by characters in a comic book).

Hi acalvin1,
The thing you are drawing will need to be in some kind of container/window/frame, whatever you want to call it. This is due to the way that the swing libraries delegate the painting of top level containers to their peer equivalent on the OS you are using. Once you have this container you can pretty much draw in it what you like.
To create speach bubbles you would need to create a component that takes care of painting itself via its paint method (really). You need to get the graphcis object for drawing irrespective of the type of shape you want to draw.
You may want to consider posting to the swing forum as you might get a better response.
nes

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