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Foil 103 Double Buffering to Reduce Flicker - I

From CRPC Lectures on Java Language Applets Graphics CRPC Annual Meeting Tutorial -- May 14,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Here you have two "graphics contexts" (frame buffers of the size of the applet), and you construct the next image for an animation "off-line" in the second frame buffer.
This frame buffer is then directly copied to the main applet Graphics object without clearing image as in default update()
Image OffscreenImage; // Place to hold Image
Graphics offscreenGraphics; // The second graphics context which contains offscreenImage
offscreenImage = createImage(width,height);
offscreenGraphics = offscreenImage.getGraphics();



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