Repainting a new label problem

[nvidia]

Hi i have panel with the following code:


public TextField textField;
public String labelText = ("Enter no.of ovals");
public String selection = ("Make Selection");

public Label enter = new Label(labelText, Label.LEFT);

public Label shapeSelection = new Label(selection, Label.LEFT);

public Panel top = new Panel();

MainWindow()
{
top.add(shapeSelection);
top.add(textField);
add(top, BorderLayout.NORTH);
}

public void paint(Graphics gc)
{

if(m_bSelectOval)
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "inside graphics for oval.");

top.setBackground(java.awt.Color.green);

top.add(enter);


add(top, BorderLayout.NORTH);

repaint();

m_bSelectOval = false;

}

}


public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent evt)
{


if ( evt.getItemSelectable() == m_oval )
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "U selected the oval radio button.");
repaint();
m_bSelectOval = true;


}

}

When i run the code i see the make selection and the text field. When i click on the radio button it goes into my into my item statched function which displays the message, u have selected oval radio button which is fine and oval is set to true. After it is set true i see the second message which is fine, and the north panel is changed to color, green. However, i cannot see my first label change to (enter) which has the message "enter number of ovals:"

My question is therefore why does only the north panel change colour but not ALSO have the new message??

[Khalid Ali]

try repainting the parent of that label as well