Hi all, I want to display an Image on a panel and for that I used the method paintComponent. The problem is that this method loops hundreds of times each time I activate it. I've checked already the class that uses this panel's class and the fault is not there (it calls the paintComponent methods only once).


This is the class code:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;


public class FilePanel extends JPanel {
  protected Image currentImage;
  private boolean isFile = false;
  private final int fileWidth = 100, fileHeight = 60;
  private int count = 0;

  public FilePanel() {
    setBorder (BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Picture Area:"));
  }


  public void setFile(String fileName) {
    Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
    currentImage = toolkit.getImage(fileName);
    System.out.println(fileName);
    isFile = true;
    repaint();
  }

  public void refreshPanel ()
  {
    isFile = false;
    repaint();
  }

  public void paintComponent (Graphics graphics)
  {
    super.paintComponent(graphics);
    if (isFile)
    {
      graphics.drawImage(currentImage, (getWidth() - fileWidth)/2,
        0, fileWidth, fileHeight, this);
    }
  }
}

I'll be happy to hear any suggestions.
Thanks