How to draw circle on JPanel? Java 2D

Question

I have a JPanel for which I set some image as the background. I need to draw a bunch of circles on top of the image. Now the circles will be positioned based on some coordinate x,y, and the size will be based on some integer size. This is what I have as my class.

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Image;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

class ImagePanel extends JPanel {

    private Image img;
    CircleList cList;  //added this

    public ImagePanel(Image img) {
        this.img = img;
        Dimension size = new Dimension(img.getWidth(null), img.getHeight(null));
        setPreferredSize(size);
        setMinimumSize(size);
        setMaximumSize(size);
        setSize(size);
        setLayout(null);

        cList = new CircleList(); //added this
    }

    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, null);

        cList.draw(null); //added this
    }
}

How can I create some method that can performed this?

Answer 1

Your approach can be something similar to this, in which you use a class CircleList to hold all the circles and the drawing routine too:

class CircleList
{
  static class Circle
  {
    public float x, y, diameter;
  }

  ArrayList<Circle> circles;

  public CirclesList()
  {
    circles = new ArrayList<Circle>();
  }

  public void draw(Graphics2D g) // draw must be called by paintComponent of the panel
  {
    for (Circle c : circles)
      g.fillOval(c.x, c.y, c.diameter, c.diameter)
  }
}