animations with java?

[shujisan87]

I am very new to programming.

I have been tasked to develop a teaching aid for engineering problems.
the program will have the user input the parameters required to solve the problem, then create on the spot animations pertaining to the parameters defined by the user?

I would like to know if this is possible.

Thank you!

[Petr]

Yes Sure. Look at on a canvas. This is a swing component.

[DarrylBurke]

No, Canvas is an AWT component. Custom painting in Swing is best done by overriding paintComponent(...) of a JComponent or JPanel. Animation can be handled by a Timer that sets state and calls repaint().

Trail: Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing (The Java™ Tutorials) -- find the sections on custom painting and how to use timers. Since you're new to Swing, you'll need to go through various other parts of the tutorial, including the part about concurrency.

db

[shujisan87]

Thank you guys! I've decided to use Java as my language of choice for the task. I'll go work on it! :)