draw method revisited

[jcamp]

could someone tell me WHEN and HOW the draw method of the JFreeChart class is called?

i'll go from there.

[david.gilbert]

It depends on the context:

• the paintComponent() method in the ChartPanel class calls the draw() method to draw the chart on a panel;
• the print() method in the ChartPanel class calls the draw() method to "draw" the chart on a printer;
• the createBufferedImage() method in the JFreeChart class calls the draw() method to draw the chart on an image;

You can do the same for any output target that can supply a Graphics2D implementation (e.g. the PDFGraphics2D class from the iText library).