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Tom:

The chess example has simple animation as you move the pieces.  You
might want to look at that.

-Rich

Tom Heagy wrote:
> 
> That was a good suggestion however I just tried it and it still doesn't
> repaint until the loop is finished.  I placed the "repaint()" method call
> inside the loop immediately after the call to "setLocation(x,y)".  I also
> tried the "paintAll" method with similar failure.  The problem also seems to
> occur with simple TextControls.
> 
> Any other suggestions?  Perhaps someone knows of a working example that I
> could look at???
> 
> -Tom
> 
> Max Polk wrote:
> 
> > [This followup was posted to borland.public.jbuilder.java.language and a
> > copy was sent to the cited author.]
> >
> > In article <36913A34.40CCCC1E@sciatl.com>, tom.heagy@sciatl.com says...
> > > My problem is that the display doesn't refresh until the last move is
> > > complete (i.e. I'm out of the loop and control is passed back to the
> > > OS).  I've played around with "invalidate" and "validate", but with no
> > > success.
> >
> > Have you tried repaint?  (in)validate has to do with saying that the
> > component needs repainting whenever AWT gets around to it, which can be
> > much later.  repaint has to do with saying that all pending paint
> > commands should occur right away.  repaint sounds like what you want.

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