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I have a program that creates great images using mathematical algorithms. I have it so it can animate the image, but right now, it looks ugly because theres so much flickering and it jumps, and its just looks bad. I know what i have to do to, double buffer, but I can only find out how to do that on an applet. It seems on a frame (or panel) it doesnt work right. Can anyone tell me how i could double buffer my graphics on a panel or frame?
One solution: use Swing not AWT and do the animation in a JPanel which does double buffering by default.
I am, i have double buffering enabled, but i know what i need to do. I want to render the frames before displaying them, then just display the 50 frames in sequence (looped). I was going to program it to double buffer the whole thing, then just flip through them. What Im doing requires thousands of calculations, so this is how i must do it.
Do your rendering up front to a BufferedImage. Then each time you animate the panel you simply draw a different image.
Thats what i am trying to figure out how to do camickr!
How do i draw to a bufferedimage?
I tried it using createImage(w,h) and IMAGE.getGraphics()
but it kept giving me null pointer errors on the graphics
No, your question was about "double buffering". You where told that double buffering is done by default so you don't worry about it.Quote:
Thats what i am trying to figure out how to do camickr!
It was then suggested that you might be able to use a BufferedImage to render your images in advance so you don't have to rerender them each time you want to change images.
So now you have a NEW question about using BufferedImages? Did you search the forum for examples that use BufferedImages?
I'm partial to my Custom Painting Approaches example which should get you started. Of course your code will be different because the example dynamically adds to a single BufferedImage, whereas you will have 50 different BufferedImages that a animated sequentially.
If you need more help post your SSCCE showing the problem.
I asked about double buffering because i was going to use the same strategy you use to manually double buffer something to render my images. And I was further trying to find that out by asking how to draw to a buffered image. I looked at code on double buffering an applet and used the same methods on my program, but it didnt work. So I was trying to find out how one would do it in a panel or frame and try that.
does that clear things up?
Ill try looking at your example and using what you use in that.