Painting checkbox icons in a custom JComponent :Scala

I'm creating a custom scala component which needs an unchecked icon at (100,100) and checked icon at (200,100), the same icons used by swing. My code below works, but looks quite weird because I need to create dummy checkboxes. Is there a standard way to accomplish this ? ( No I'm not trying to add components to container etc etc...this is not a layout management problem...am trying to create a custom component )

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val comp = new JComponent() {


override def paintComponent(g:Graphics) {
    val cb1 = new JCh开发者_JAVA百科eckBox()
    val cb2 = new JCheckBox()
    cb2.setSelected( true )
    val icon = UIManager.getIcon("CheckBox.icon")
    icon.paintIcon( cb1, g, 100,100)
    icon.paintIcon( cb2, g, 200,100)
  }
}
val f = new JFrame
f.getContentPane().setLayout( new BorderLayout )
f.getContentPane().add( comp , BorderLayout.CENTER )
f.pack
f.show

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You shouldn't define components within paintComponent. Define them in the component's constructor so that they're not re-defined each time the component is redrawn.

The standard thing to do if you don't want the user to change the values of checkboxes would be to use setEnabled(false).

Also, have you tried using the scala.swing package?