I was able to solve the problem. I first converted BottomLeftPanel to BottomLeftLabel and put it in a panel of its own. Then I did the painting in the paint(Graphics g) method. In the paint method, I used super.paint(Graphics g), but this is not important because the JLabel (BottomLeftLabel) would not clear the ImageIcon it held no matter what was painted. I do not mind using a static reference, since if I did not use a static reference, I would either have to make the class implement MouseListener, or create a seperate class which implements MouseListener, and since I am only running 1 GUI at a time, it does not make sense to do that (the static reference would not cause any problems here). Here is the code:
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Polygon;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import java.awt.geom.Point2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class BottomLeftLabel extends JLabel {
public static BottomLeftLabel BLP;
public static BufferedImage original;
public static ImageIcon icon;
public static Polygon poly;
// public static JLabel label;
public BottomLeftLabel() throws IOException {
super();
// this.setBackground(new Color(255, 255, 255, 0));
original = Methods2.loadImage("crash bandicoot picture.jpg");
// original = Methods2.loadImage("bowser jr.png");
// original = Methods2.loadImage("devil's tooth.jpg");
original = Methods2.toFourChannel(original);
// int[][] p = Methods.toIntegerArray(original);
// p = Methods.adjustTransparency(p, (float) 1.0);
// original = Methods.toBufferedImage(p);
// this.setSize(new Dimension(original.getWidth(), original.getHeight()));
// Graphics g = this.getGraphics();
poly = null;
icon = new ImageIcon(original);
// label = new JLabel(icon);
this.addMouseListener(new MouseListener() {
@Override
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent me) {
}
@Override
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me) {
Point2D P = me.getPoint();
if(poly == null) {
poly = new Polygon(new int[]{(int) P.getX()}, new int[]{(int) P.getY()}, 1);
return;
}
int[] B = poly.xpoints;
int[] C = poly.ypoints;
int[] X = new int[poly.npoints + 1];
int[] Y = new int[poly.npoints + 1];
System.arraycopy(B, 0, X, 0, B.length);
System.arraycopy(C, 0, Y, 0, C.length);
X[B.length] = (int) P.getX();
Y[C.length] = (int) P.getY();
poly = new Polygon(X, Y, poly.npoints + 1);
System.out.println(poly.toString());
// BLP.getGraphics().clearRect(0, 0, BLP.getHeight(), BLP.getWidth());
// BLP.removeAll();
// icon = new ImageIcon(original);
// BLP.add(new JLabel(icon));
BLP.paint(BLP.getGraphics());
}
@Override
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent me) {
}
@Override
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent me) {
}
@Override
public void mouseExited(MouseEvent me) {
}
});
this.setIcon(icon);
BLP = this;
// repaint(this.getGraphics());
}
@Override
public void paint(Graphics g) {
super.paint(g);
g.clearRect(0, 0, WIDTH, HEIGHT);
if(poly != null) {
g.drawPolygon(poly);
}
}
// /**
// *
// * @param g
// */
// public void repaint(Graphics g) {
//// g.clearRect(0, 0, WIDTH, HEIGHT);
//
// g.setColor(Color.black);
// g.drawPolygon(poly);
// this.removeAll();
// icon = new ImageIcon(original);
// this.add(new JLabel(icon));
// }
// public void repaint(Graphics g) {
//
// }
}