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Thanks for the suggestion but I was hoping to find something a bit simpler.  I'm
still a novice at JAVA and the "Multi-threaded Client/Server" Chess example is a
bit overwhelming to me at this point.

-Tom


Richard Wilkman wrote:

> 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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