manu g

i have drawn an image in canvas,now i want to make it as an image so that i be able to extract the pixel information from it,how can i make an Image object from the information in canvas

thank u for ur reply it did work very well,hoping 2 get ur help more

hello....
i am currently trying 2 develop a chatserver,it is similar 2 Yahoo's chat server ,the difference is it has only one room.i had done the public chat facility,the problem is with the private chat,
consider the situation, x,y and z are chatting
x sent a private message 4 y,in the y side a small private window named x opened with the message if the window is not opened there,
the problem is if it is already open,how could i know it is opened,i should be able 2 display the message currntly received at y side in the already opened private window

i have created a software which is similar to WordPad in Windows OS,i have facility 2 insert JPEG images as icons into the document,other facilites include changing color of text,changing the font.the problem is when ever i save i am not able 2 save th colored text,or text with other fonts and pictures,how could i save all these,i need the software 2 be wordpad like

i have used AWT for constructing a ImageDrawing tool,for that i used a canvas as the drawing pad.in my tool box i have options such as Line,Circle,Rectangle,Freeline etc.the method which i am using is as follows
1.i record all the points in which line or circle is drawn
2. all the points are recorded in a Vector
3.every time i finished drawing something i redraw all the points that ihave recorded earlier
Now the problem is
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after a lot of drawing the canvas flickers which unables me to see what i am drawing,i used update() in the code,but it shows me another problem,when ever i draw a colorline or something else
it shows me a number of lines,after minimize if i maximaize the scren it shows the correct image ie what i have drawn,removing all other lines