Double buffering delivered widgets

[Matthew Snow]

What I'm doing is double buffering my GUI app, basically rather than calling JPanel.repaint() I've created a BufferedImage and am drawing directly to it and then just calling Graphics.drawImage(Image, int, int, ImageObserver) my JPanel's Graphics object. This of course prevents me from simply adding the delivered swing widgets to my JPanel. Is there a way I can extract the Image of a widget so I can just add it to my BufferedImage? Calling JComponent.creatImage() on these widgets only seems to give me an empty image object.

[Rob Camick]

rather than calling JPanel.repaint() I've created a BufferedImage and am drawing directly to it and then just calling Graphics.drawImage(Image, int, int, ImageObserver)

I've never seen that before and fail to understand the reasoning for that. All painting should be done from within the paintComponent() method and not outside it using a Graphics object.

Is there a way I can extract the Image of a widget

A Screen Image might be what you are looking for.

[Matthew Snow]

The reason why I'm doing it is avoid IO slow down. It takes a while for the JComponent to send updated images to the screen one widget at a time. With the BufferedImage, I update only what I want and all I want all at once with just one call to the screen.

This will explain it better than I can: http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/ch1/ch1.pdf

[Matthew Snow]

Thanks Rob, checked out your ScreemImage code and saw it was calling Component.paint(Graphics). Using my BufferedImage's Graphics object as the parameter is just what I wanted.