Canvas on JFrame in java

Question

I've seen in many threads it's not recommended to mix awt and swing components. However I've seen examples in which they add the Canvas to a JFrame (No other swing components are involved). Canvas is an awt component and JFrame is a swing component, so is it ok to do so? and if not, how exactly to use the Canvas?

Answer 1

You could get some unusual display problems with older JDKs, but mixing swing and AWT is fine nowadays. See this article: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/mixing-components-433992.html

I've written a game which used swing components for most of the UI/controls but a canvas for drawing the main game area (see https://github.com/qwerky/Towers/blob/master/src/main/java/lineup/ui/UI.java ). It worked fine with no problems.