What about hardware acceleration? I've heard that you can only do it using a Canvas because of the createBufferStrategy() method in combination with the GraphicsConfiguration class, but can you do it using Swing components? I've read some about Volatile images, but do not know much about some of the fundamental concepts (i.e. if I just draw to a BufferedImage and then have the JPanel graphic draw that image, is that the same thing, or do I have to allocate the memory in the accelerated graphics memory? Whats the difference?). Sorry for kind of commandeering this
thread, but it seems in line with the topic.
Andy