drawing on my swing window

ok i have my swing window...but now i'd like to draw shapes on it, like i've done in applets. i've been trying some different combinations of stuff, but they dont' seem to work, is it a different process with a window?

Code:

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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class window
{
    public static void main(String [] args)
    {       
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Ants");
        Dimension WindowSize = new Dimension(200, 200);
       
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setSize(400,400);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
}

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thanks guys :cool:

You should place some kind of JPanel in the frame's content pane. This panel ought to be of your own class (derived from JPanel). Then you can override the paint method.

You can override the paint() method with any class that you create that is a subclass of the following.
[list=a][*]Canvas class[*]Subclasses of the Component class that are not part of the AWT[*]Container class and it's subclasses: Window, Frame, Dialog, Panel, Applet[/list=a]