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Making a cross-hair visible

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I am dabbling with Swing to do some GUI stuff. This is relatively new
for me. At the moment I draw a rectangle for cropping an image. The
position is selected by clicking on the centre from where I think the
rectangle should be placed. This can be a little of, so I have to
fine-tune it. For this I draw a little cross in the centre. Problem is
that I paint it in black and when the centre is black, I will not see
it. And with every colour I choose I can have this problem. Is there a
smart way to make the cross always visible?

I was thinking about a timer function which would alternate the colour
of the cross between black and white, but was wondering if there is a
better way.

At the moment my code is:
    protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        Graphics2D g2       = (Graphics2D) g;
        int        centerX  = x + cropWidth  / 2;
        int        centerY  = y + cropHeight / 2;

        super.paintComponent(g);
        g2.setStroke(stroke);
        g.setColor(rectColor);
        g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, imageWidth, imageHeight, null);
        g.drawRect(x, y, cropWidth, cropHeight);
        g.drawLine(centerX - crossLength, centerY, centerX + crossLength, centerY);
        g.drawLine(centerX, centerY - crossLength, centerX, centerY + crossLength);
    }

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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Making a cross-hair visible Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-08-11 23:14 +0200
  Re: Making a cross-hair visible Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-11 17:34 -0400
  Re: Making a cross-hair visible Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2016-08-11 23:36 +0200
    Re: Making a cross-hair visible Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-08-12 00:20 +0200
  Re: Making a cross-hair visible Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-08-11 17:40 -0400

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