Thread: String won't display in my window

I don't know what is causing this, but what happens, is that my window appears, but my drawString(); doesn't appear and show the text. No errors or anything.

import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
 
import javax.naming.ldap.Rdn;
 
 
public class MainGameClass {
 
	//Accesses the ScreenHandler class and makes it use 'sh' variable
	static ScreenHandler sh = new ScreenHandler();
 
	//Main thingy (duh)
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
 
		//Makes ScreenHandler class activate DrawWindow method
		sh.DrawWindow();
 
	}
	public void paint(Graphics g){
		g.drawString("Hey!", 200, 200);
	}
 
}

ScreenHandler class:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
 
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
 
//Referenced by MainGameClass
 
public class ScreenHandler {
 
	//Draws the window the game is in
	JFrame frame = new JFrame("Indev v0.01");
 
	public void DrawWindow(){
		//Initiates window drawing
		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
 
		JLabel emptyLabel = new JLabel("");
		//Makes it 800 by 600
		emptyLabel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(1000, 600));
		frame.getContentPane().add(emptyLabel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
 
		frame.pack();
		//Makes it visible
		frame.setVisible(true);
 
		//Activates the PaintWindow function below
		PaintWindowColor();
 
	}
	public void PaintWindowColor(){
 
		//Sets the background color to blue
		//frame.getContentPane().setBackground(Color.BLUE);
	}
 
}

Add a println next to the drawString method call to verify that the paint method is being called.


Where do you call the paint() method with the drawString?
If you think you are overriding a component method add the annotation: @Override just before paint() to have the compiler tell you if you are.