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1. Where to look to get started with making an animated clock with Swing in Java?    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to make an animated clock using Swing in Java. The picture I have posted is a basic idea of what I am looking for. In the end I ...

2. Animated *.gif framerate is too high    stackoverflow.com

I'm loading an animated gif into a JButton. Online the gif looks to move at a normal pace. But when I load it in java it looks like the animation is ...

3. Basic animation in Java for a screensaver app of sorts    stackoverflow.com

I was assigned to make an animated screensaver as a programming project for my Advanced Programming course. The objective is to have several moving components inside an undecorated, fullscreen frame, but ...

4. How to get rid of the flicker that appears during my animation?    stackoverflow.com

I'm learning Java by making a small game in a JApplet. I got a little problem with my sprite's animation. Here is the code :

this.sprite.setBounds(0,0,20,17);

this.sprite.setIcon(this.rangerDown);
for(int i = 0; i< 16;i++)
{
    ...

5. How to make an animation with Swing?    stackoverflow.com

I am making a JApplet and got stuck with a animation problem. Here is my code :

  this.sprite.setBounds(0,0,20,17);
  this.sprite.setIcon(this.rangerDown);
  for(int i = 0; i< 16;i++)
  {
   ...

6. Is it possible to perform active rendering in Java Swing without being on the EDT?    stackoverflow.com

I am looking into using Buffer Strategy and the following technique described on the Javadoc:

// Main loop
while (!done) {
 // Prepare for rendering the next frame
 // ...

 // ...

7. Why it doesn't draw an animated curve?    stackoverflow.com

This is my class which I found on the Internet. It was originally an applet but I don't want to use it as an applet so I changed some methods (such ...

8. making a rotating or swing effect with scriptaculous shake?    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to have an effect when moused over, the item does not shake from side to side, but slides sort of like a clock pendulum rotating from 180-90 degreeds ...

9. How to do animation using swing and clojure?    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to animate a chess piece in a board. First I created a java.util.Timer object that "scheduleAtFixedRate" a TimerTask implemented as a proxy function. So I kept a record of ...





10. Java swing animation looks choppy. How to make it look pro?    stackoverflow.com

UPDATE: semicomplex animation + swing timer = trainwreck. The ultimate source of the problems was the java timer, either the swing or utility version. They are unreliable, especially when performance is ...

11. Java Swing support for animations    stackoverflow.com

Suppose you have to create a simple 2D animation, like the drawing of a graph where the nodes can change their position. I was wondering how it would be different ...

12. Why is my class not being accessed, preventing my Swing animation from moving?    stackoverflow.com

I have been working on this homework assignment for at least a week or two on and off, and while I am slowly moving forward I always seem to get new ...

13. Animation in GIF not working when processing is going on    stackoverflow.com

I am displaying a GIF animation using the following code:

    ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("resources/wait_animated.gif"));
           ...

14. Java: Swing library for creating animated help overlay animations?    stackoverflow.com

Looking to create similar effect to http://www.youtube.com/create/GoAnimate I like the cartoon avatar which guide the user step by step with animated green arrows, explaining what to do and what the ...

15. Dealing with memory making Swing animations    stackoverflow.com

It's my first time writting there but after reading and searching a lot about the subject I'm going to explain, I didn't found anything useful for me (I've checked a post ...

16. swing animation    stackoverflow.com

I have an animation, and would like to make it disappear progressively when it reaches the left side of the display area.

AffineTransform at = new AffineTransform();
at.scale(-1, 1);
at.translate((-clip.x + (clip.x - xPositionToPixel(imgX))), ...





17. animation handling several cycle    stackoverflow.com

I have animation that is an image moving from right to left, which is one cycle. I would like to know how to do if i have to start several ...

18. Java Swing element transitions    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to make a small non-commercial app and make it have a well designed interface, with screen transitions and such. I have every "screen" on separate panels in one ...

19. Flash animation-like 2d graphical library for C++ or Java    stackoverflow.com

I'm looking for a good (hopefully free) 2d graphical library in C++, or in worst case, Java, which helps create the look and feel of Flash animations, the typical ones you ...

20. if swing components fade-away trick using is not suggested?    stackoverflow.com

I'm actually still digging up into the Java SE (desktop app), and now i'm a bit curious while actually trying to do some animation fading in and out of the swing components. I found ...

21. Smooth animation in Swing    stackoverflow.com

How do I animate a JPanel at the maximum refresh rate of the client's monitor? What I would like to happen is that paintComponent is only called after the last update. I ...

22. Java Animation Method    stackoverflow.com

Comparing javax.swing.Timer, java.util.Timer and Thread, which method is the best CPU utilization for animation in Java and why ? The other method that not mentioned is also accepted.

23. Make a single if-statement wait before executing in Java?    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to make Java wait for 1 second before evaluating an if statement to see if it should change a boolean. I have it set up where if Rectangle r ...

24. The Page Turn Effect in Java Swing/AWT    stackoverflow.com

I would like to implement the page turn effect in Swing/AWT. The theory is pretty much explained here. My question is that since the page is to ...

25. Java backbuffer and animations    stackoverflow.com

I'm creating a simple 2D game in java. I've only done this in C++ with the Windows API so far. In java, I'm getting a Graphics object by extending JFrame and ...

26. Getting the OS Animation preferences in Java    stackoverflow.com

I have a Java app whose windows and internal components have animations that could slow down a less powerful computer. I know that all OSs have some form of animation preferences ...

27. Java Swing / AWT with setIcon Gif Animated High Load    stackoverflow.com

:D I'm having an interesting case here. I Have 1 single java app. ONly Containing 1 JMenu with 48 JMenuItem(s). Each JMenuItems i set the Icon with Animated GIF. I have no problem creating it. ...

28. Java Processing Scheduler Simulator Animation Recommendations?    stackoverflow.com

I'm making a generic, simple process scheduling simulator for demonstration/teaching purposes. It is an assignment for school. I am not asking for any code or anything, I have my process scheduling ...

29. Animated Gif's and serialization    coderanch.com

I have an applet that makes use of some animated gifs. I do this in order to show animations without adding the JMM (Java MultiMedia Pack). If anyone can suggest another efficient way to display animations I'm open for that as well. My problem: Gif animations don't work once they're serialized! I serialize the gif's as Image Icons, but once transmitted, ...

30. displaying animated GIFs in jdk 1.2.2    coderanch.com

31. animated gifs in AWT    coderanch.com

33. Animated GIF    coderanch.com

34. Animations and Memory Usage    coderanch.com

I am trying to create an animation of a series of 256 x 256 images. I've gotten the animation to work, but I am unble to load all of the necessary images for the animation (I cannot load much more than 100 images, but I need to display more than 3000). I get a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. Right now, I am loading my ...

35. simple animation    coderanch.com

I have project due that requires me to write a couple of sorting algorithms and display them graphicly sorting, some sort of little animation. I have written them sorting algorithms out but i have never used the animation/drawing part of Java, so do quite know where to start. What i would like to is diplay the numbers on screen maybe with ...

36. how to resize an animated gif?    coderanch.com

38. Stop Gif animation    coderanch.com

39. Stopping Animation    coderanch.com

Hi! I've coded two classes that create an array of the circle object and then move this array of circles by means of redrawing its position in the window. The circles move clockwise at first and at each move there is a probability, as input by the user, that they are going to change direction. When they change direction the circles ...

40. Animation of graph drawing    coderanch.com

Hi everyone, I'm going to implement a animation application that can automatically drawing some graphs. The scenario is like the following: 1. draw a graph, for example a tree, which nodes are randomly located, 2. adjust the positions of the nodes by some rules. I want to show the changing step by step. but after the initial drawing( 1st step), the ...

41. Sprite Animation    coderanch.com

I got started with the old Sun tutorial which had a page on animation. It has been retired but (they say it) is available for download on this page: Download the Java Tutorial. I think you want the Online Tutorial link. The rest I learned on my own. For background information on painting you might check the currrent tutorial page: Implementing ...

43. How can I create this animation.    coderanch.com

44. Animation - Need way to avoid UI wipe off    coderanch.com

I need to implement a network simulation animation with messages (icons) flowing back and forth between nodes (filloval). Each node is a thread behind the scenes and determines which message to send based on its state transition model. Now everytime the window is minimized or some other window comes over my swing window, the part of the window overlapped becomes blank. ...

45. Java animation :confused:    coderanch.com

here's a very simple 'bouncy ball' demo import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; class Testing extends JFrame { public Testing() { setLocation(100,50); setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE); getContentPane().add(new DrawPanel()); pack(); } public static void main(String[] args){new Testing().setVisible(true);} } class DrawPanel extends JPanel implements Runnable { int x = 0,y = 0; int xDirection = -1, yDirection = -1; public DrawPanel() { setBackground(Color.WHITE); setPreferredSize(new Dimension(800,600)); Thread t = ...

46. Animation    coderanch.com

Trying some animation, and the animation works, however there is a probelm. When the rectangle gets to the bottom of the frame it disappears and then comes back, and when it hits the left side, it goes past the frame (theoretically) and then comes back, but I have no idea why. Here is my code if you want to run it, ...

47. animation not animating...    coderanch.com

import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.awt.geom.Ellipse2D; import javax.swing.*; public class AnimationTest extends JPanel implements ActionListener { Ellipse2D.Double ball; int dx; int dy; BallMover mover; public AnimationTest() { ball = new Ellipse2D.Double(50, 50, 20, 20); dx = 3; dy = 2; mover = new BallMover(this); } protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) { super.paintComponent(g); Graphics2D g2 =(Graphics2D)g; g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON); int w = getWidth(); int ...

48. animation using swings    coderanch.com

here's a couple of ways 1) Thread import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; class Testing extends JFrame { int x=0, y=0; int counter = 0; public Testing() { final JPanel p = new JPanel(){ public void paintComponent(Graphics g){ super.paintComponent(g); g.setColor(Color.BLUE); g.fillRect(x,y,50,50); } }; getContentPane().add(p); setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE); setSize(800,600); setLocationRelativeTo(null); setVisible(true); Thread t = new Thread(){ public void run(){ while(true) { x += 5; ...

49. animation with swings    coderanch.com

Hi, I have a GUI that displays values from several queues. I have a program that pops one queue and pushes the value into another queue. Can somebody help me on how to animate the change from one queue to another? In essence, I would like to animate the contents of one queue being popped and pushed into another queue. Any ...

50. animation    coderanch.com

import java.awt.*; import java.awt.font.*; import java.awt.geom.Ellipse2D; import javax.swing.*; public class MovingText extends JPanel { Point p1, p2, loc; String text = "abc"; public MovingText() { p1 = new Point(25, 25); p2 = new Point(350, 350); loc = p1.getLocation(); } public void addNotify() { super.addNotify(); Thread thread = new Thread(new Runner()); thread.setPriority(Thread.NORM_PRIORITY); thread.start(); } protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) { super.paintComponent(g); Graphics2D g2 ...

51. A simple animation doubt    coderanch.com

hello friends, I was just trying to solve one question from HEAD FIRST JAVA from 12 chap..A VERY GRAPHIC STORY The below code is for a simple animation where an oval just shift in the jframe in top left to bottom right direction. My dobut is it works only when I include a System.out.println statement in for loop of go() method( ...

52. Need help on animation using GUI Builder.    coderanch.com

cant help with the netbeans part, but for the animation let's assume you're trying to move a ball around the screen. the ball has a size, color, position on screen. (generally) in a while() you change the position of the ball, add a Thread.sleep(..) and call repaint(). This gives you the effect of animation. Your problem is you appear to be ...

53. Filthy Rich Client Tools For Animation    coderanch.com

The Timing Framework is a relatively recent project (just went 1.0 last week), so I doubt there are tools out there yet unless they're just in development or being prototyped. However, the idea of a tool was always in the back of our minds as we were working on this and related projects. We needed some infrastructure first (ala the Timing ...

54. Tool to build Animations    coderanch.com

55. Graphics and animation in Java    coderanch.com

56. this animation code does not show o/p    coderanch.com

57. Animation in Swing    coderanch.com

Hey Everyone; What the code below does is count the number of lines(steps) i have on a Jtable and then check to see how many items are in each step. Items can have different ratings being from 1,3,5 or 7. The loops I have below count the number of items with each ratings in the "count" section. For each line of ...

58. Help with Paint commands in an animation    coderanch.com

I am trying to construct a simple animation in which several boxes float around the window and bounce of the edges (like a screen saver). I'm made it work with a single box, but ran into trouble adding more boxes. The parts of my code that assign the position of the box seem to work fine, but when I try to ...

59. Doubt in Fonts Animation!    coderanch.com

ok. But what i am asking is, after placing a string in an applet, that string might be treated as an Image. From that image(String), how can i get the particular character? any possible ways? in "javaranch", the particular character 'r'. ---------------------------------------------- | | | | | y | | |----- x-------- javaranch | | | | if i can get ...

60. Gui animation    coderanch.com

Hi, I have a problem with my animation, below shows some pseudo code that moves a car across the screen. The code is all run inside a new Thread and try catch blocks omitted for clarity. while(true) { car.x += 100; Thread.sleep(100); SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new Runnable(){ public void run() { jpanelObj.repaint() } }); } My problem is on the first iteration after the ...

61. Simple Animation.    coderanch.com

Hi There I am trying to learn some simple animation with Java and swing. The code below should create a frame and add a simple graphic to the screen. I have then added a Key Listener to capture the left and right cursor keys. When the left or right key is pressed the image should move left or right. Currently it ...

62. Animation problem with swing    coderanch.com

I'm trying to create an applet of a rain storm. i've already have the program working, pretty much. the only problem that i have is... well let me explain it this way: RainDrop is the class that has the methods to draw the raindrop to the screen, move it down the screen, and destroy it when it reaches the bottom of ...

63. Animation in Java    coderanch.com

Hey Guys, I'm encountering a small problem with the Class 'ForLoop' in the below code.. Desired Output: Oval moving down with changing colors. The Output I'm getting: Oval staying in the first given co-ordinates and not moving and also not changing colors If the for loop is used without the Object referencing, the code is working fine,but when i try to ...

64. How to implement Java Animation Fading In & Out?    coderanch.com

import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import javax.swing.*; public class FadingLabel { private int alpha = 255; private int increment = -5; private JLabel label = new JLabel("Fading Label"); public static void main(String[] args) { SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { new FadingLabel().makeUI(); } }); } public void makeUI() { new Timer(80, new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { ...

65. Converting to an Animated GIF or something similar    coderanch.com

Hi, please have a look at the following code (This is a test code, that's why you can see just a one class with a subclass and a simple GUI ) import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; public class SlideShow extends JFrame implements ActionListener { JLabel label,testLabel; String r[]; Icon icon; JPanel panel; JButton ok, create; thread1 t1 = new thread1(); ...

66. Two sleeps in animation    java-forums.org

The listing below is a modification to a program in Campesato's excellent book "Java Graphics Programming: Concepts to Source Code," page 95. It draws a series of multicolored rectangles along a deltoid curve. I added start(), run(), and stop() methods to contol the animation; my objective being to slow down the loop and sleep a tenth of a second or so ...

67. Simple Animation "Blur"    java-forums.org

I have a vehicle specified to move a number of spaces on a game board in a particular direction. For this example, the vehicle is moving left. Since the animation is short and simple (and this is the only animation in the game), I'm trying to avoid launching a whole new thread, overwriting paint, etc. as most of the tutorials show. ...

68. Fish animation    java-forums.org

import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.awt.Color; public class Template { public static void main (String args[]) { Windows win = new Windows(); win.setSize(800,600); win.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {System.exit(0);}}); win.show(); } } class Windows extends Frame { public void paint(Graphics screen) { Polygon fish= new Polygon(); for(int x1=1;x1<=60;x1++) { fish.addPoint((130+x1 ),150); fish.addPoint((125+x1),350); fish.addPoint((175+x1),250); screen.drawPolygon(fish); screen.drawLine((175+x1),250,(250+x1),400); screen.drawLine((250+x1),400,(375+x1),275); screen.drawLine((375+x1),275,(260+x1),125); screen.drawLine((175+x1),250,(260+x1),125); ...

69. Can we animation in Java Swing?    java-forums.org

70. My animation flickers.    java-forums.org

package pong; import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Graphics; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.RepaintManager; import javax.swing.Timer; public class Field extends JFrame{ Timer timer; Ball ball = new Ball(200, 200); public Field() { setTitle("Pong"); setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); setSize(400, 400); setVisible(true); getContentPane().setBackground(Color.WHITE); new Timer(100, new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { ball.update(); repaint(); } }).start(); } @Override public void paint(Graphics g) { super.paint(g); ball.draw(g); ...

71. Adding animation for a series of moves    java-forums.org

Hi, I am keeping a deck of cards, as imageIcons in JLabels, as laid out on a JLayeredPane. I have just discovered that moving a card in the event dispatch thread slowly across the screen doesn't have any repainting in it (even with repaint() and vaildate() and all of this). I have my existing code. There are various legal play types, ...

72. Text Animation    java-forums.org

Guys: I have a scroll list that I need to animate with new text. The new text arrives from a seperate thread about every 5 seconds. My problem is the the JList is but one part (i.e., JPanel) of my overall JPanel containing several other panels. However, whe I refresh the JList, my entire Window refreshes or appears to. The result ...

73. gui animation problems    java-forums.org

Hey. Thanks in advance Synopsis: I am reading a book.... It told me to try and animate an oval with what i know(come up with a concept, but i decided to write code). I'm making an oval that moves diagonally with a JPanel. It compiles perfectly, but doesn't run quite as expected. I want to say my logic is correct, so ...

74. help with Swing Timer animation    java-forums.org

help with Swing Timer animation hey guys, I have a problem. I've inserted a swing timer into a Swing Gui, to shift icons in a label, so that i could make a stopmotion animation. The code has no errors at all, but something is going wrong anyways. I have no clue what it is so I'll ask you. Here ...

75. Animation using swing and pasive rendering    forums.oracle.com

How can i get a fluently efect of animation using pasive rendering and this.repaint(); I want to do it this way and i dont know how could i do it differrent. I ' ve got a loop: for(i n*interval -> n scene What ...

76. animation/swing/timer question    forums.oracle.com

I'm working on an Applet that bounces a ball around in a 3D room - kind of like a racketball court. It works like this: I have a JApplet called Game, and it contains a JPanel (called Court). In Court() I create two objects: Ball and Walls. Ball and Walls are plain classes that contain methods (Ball has drawBall(Graphics g) and ...

77. Java GUI with animations and I have no clue how to build it or where to ...    forums.oracle.com

If it is 'completed', that implies that no GUI was requested in the problem description. If that is the case, you will have more chance of getting an A by reviewing your (supposedly CLI based) code and >making it the best it can be, rather than 'tossing a GUI on top'. Or at least you would if I was marking it ...