Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition)

Hello

My program im writing recently is a small tiny application which can change fonts, font sizes, font colors and background color of the graphics object containing some strings. Im planning to use Jcomboboxes for all those 4 ideas in implementing those functions. Somehow it doesnt work! Any help would be grateful.

So currently what ive done so far is that: Im using two classes to implement the whole program. One class is the main class which contains the GUI with its components (Jcomboboxes etc..) and the other class is a class extending JPanel which does all the drawing. Therefore it contains a graphics object in that class which draws the string. However what i want it to do is using jcombobox which should contain alit of all fonts available/ font sizes/ colors etc. When i scroll through the lists and click the one item i want - the graphics object properties (font sizes/ color etc) should change as a result.

What ive gt so far is implemented the jcomboboxes in place. Problem is i cant get the font to change once selecting an item form it.
Another problem is that to set the color of font - i need to use it with a graphics object in the paintcomponent method. In this case i dnt want to create several diff paint.. method with different property settings (font/ size/ color)

Below is my code; perhaps you'll understand more looking at code.

public class main...

Color[] Colors = {Color.BLUE, Color.RED, Color.GREEN};
        ColorList = new JComboBox(Colors);

ColorList.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ev) {
            	JComboBox cb = (JComboBox)ev.getSource();
                Color colorType = (Color)cb.getSelectedItem();
                drawingBoard.setBackground(colorType);
            	
                
              }
          });;

1) providing the GUI is correctly implemented with components
2) Combobox stores the colors in an array
3) ActionListener should do following job: (but cant get it right - that is where my problem is)

- once selected the item (color/ font size etc... as i would have similar methods for each) i want, it should pass the item into the drawingboard class (JPanel) and then this class should do the job.

public class DrawingBoard extends JPanel {
	  private String message;
	  
	  public DrawingBoard() {
		    setBackground(Color.white);
		    Font font = new Font("Serif", Font.PLAIN, fontSize);
		    setFont(font);
		    message = "";
       }
	  
	  public void setMessage(String m) {
		  message = m;
		  repaint();
		  
	  }
	  
	  public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
		    super.paintComponent(g);
		    //setBackground(Color.RED);
		    Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
		    g2.setRenderingHint		    
		    	    
		    
		    g2.drawString(message, 50, 50);
	  }
	  
	  public void settingFont(String font) {
		  //not sure how to implement this?		                //Jcombobox should pass an item to this 
                               //it should match against all known fonts in system then set that font to the graphics
		  	    }
      
	  
	  
	  
      private void settingFontSize(Graphics g, int f) {
                     //same probelm with above..               
            }
      
      public void setBackgroundColor(Color c) {
    	  setBackground(c);
    	  repaint(); // still not sure if this done corretly.
      }

      public void setFontColor(Color c) {
                //not sure how to do this part aswell.
               //i know a method " g.setColor(c)" exist but i need to use a graphics object - and to do that i need to pass it in (then it will cause some confusion in the main class (previous code) 
        }
	  

My problems have been highlighted in the comments of code above.
Any help will be much appreciated thanks!!!