Stop Painting over JComboBoxes?

Question

I'm programming a game in Java (MasterMind) that uses simple graphics, and JComboBox to get inputs. The problem is that the graphics "paint over" the options in my JComboBoxes. When I mouse hover over the options, the problem fixes itself, but the initial graphics getting in the way is annoying. My code is kind of a mess so far, so it would probably be better to just post a screenshot, since I haven't made any sense so far:
http://home.comcast.net/~falcorthedog/untitled.JPG
As you can see, the colored pegs get in the way of my selections. Any way around this? Any help would be greatly appreciated... my project is due Tuesday! Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

From what I've seen, I supose you altered the paint(Graphics) method of the underlying JPanel which also contains the JComboBox. Probably your code looks like this:
public void paint(Graphics g){
super.paint(g);
//your stuff, painting the circles etc...
}First of all, it would be better to overwrite paintComponent(Graphics) in this case, which should already fix your problem, as this method will only affect those parts of the panel not covered by other components (well, it's not what happens, but the effect is the same). Alternately you could simply change the drawing order by making the call to super.paint(g) at the end of your paint method - telling java to paint all your stuff, then the JComboBox on top of it.
sarcan