How can swing objects be painted when using active rendering?

[kiregad]

If I try to add a swing objects e.g. a JButton, my app shows the button, but there are huge amounts of flickering.

I am using active rendering.

[Fubarable]

without your showing code, I think that most will not be able to answer your question. Please look at the link in my signature about creating an SSCCE. If you follow the recommendations in this link, you'll be able to post a small program that we can more easily analyze, adapt and improve and thus answer your question. Also, when you state "active rendering" do you mean that you are not rendering in a component's paint method or a JComponent's paintComponent method? And if so, why? Is this game programming?

Much luck!

[kiregad]

Yes this is game programming, and im using fullscreen mode.

Here is how I paint the screen:

public void gameLoop() {
		long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
		long currTime = startTime;
		
		while(isRunning) {
			long elapsedTime = System.currentTimeMillis() - currTime;
			currTime += elapsedTime;
			
			// update
			update(elapsedTime);
		
			// draw the screen
			Graphics2D g = screen.getGraphics();
			draw(g);
			g.dispose();
			screen.update();
			
			try { Thread.sleep(20); }
			catch(InterruptedException e) {   }
		}  
	}

[Fubarable]

Hm, I don't do active rendering, so I'll be limited help here -- hopefully someone else more versed in this and Java game programming will pitch in, but I wonder if you will need to implement double buffering yourself if you do this. Also, perhaps you want to redraw the smallest Rectangle possible rather than the whole screen every 20 ms.

[kiregad]

My draw() method implements double buffering.

My problem is flickering when using swing objects when in fullscreen mode.

[Fubarable]

You may wish to consider creating and posting an SSCCE that demonstrates your problem (please see the third link in my signature). If you do this, remember that the simpler and smaller your code, the easier it will be to analyze and the more help you'll likely get.

Luck!

[camickr]

Where did you learn about active rendering? Presumably there was an example posted with the tutorial. Does the example work?

Swing is double buffered by default and I don't think you need to go to all the trouble. I suspect the tip you found was for AWT which in nont double buffered.

Painting in Swing and AWT is different so the same tips do not apply to both.

[kiregad]

From the book "Developing games in java" by David Brackeen.

[JavaMe]

You need to actively paint your Swing components in that loop as well. A full detailed example can be found at:

JamesGames.org | Resources | Double Buffering and Active Rendering Guide | Double Buffering and Active Rendering in Java with Swing Integration

Basically, you need to set some of your Swing component's backgrounds to not be opaque, ignore repaints by Java, and then actively paint the Swing components in your loop.

Let me know if you have any questions.

[JvlShz]

try using a BufferStrategy