Java Panel Double Buffering

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wondered if anyone could point me in the right directon, i have developed a pong game and it needs double buffering due to flickering. Iv tryed some of the post on here to try and make it work, but im still a beginner with the swing awt suff, any help would be amazing thanks. ``` public class PongPanel extends JPanel implements Runnable { private int screenWidth = 500; private int screenHeight = 300; private boolean isPaused = false; private boolean isGameOver = false; private int playToPoints = 10; private Padel player1,player2; private Ball ball; private Thread gameThread; private Image dbImage; private Graphics dbg; public PongPanel() { setPreferredSize(new Dimension(screenWidth,screenHeight)); setBackground(Color.BLACK); setDoubleBuffered(true); setFocusable(true); requestFocus(); player1 = new Padel(Position.LEFT,screenWidth,screenHeight); player2 = new Padel(Position.RIGHT,screenWidth,screenHeight); ball = new Ball(10,screenWidth/2,screenHeight/2,Color.WHITE); } public void addN…

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There's a really good tutorial here which describes how to use BufferStrategy to produce non-flickering animation.

The important points are:

- Call `setIgnoreRepaint(true)` on the top-level `Canvas` to prevent AWT from repainting it, as you'll typically be doing this yourself within the animation loop.

- Obtain the `Graphics2D` object from the `BufferStrategy` (rather than using the instance passed in via `paintComponent(Graphics g)`.

Java Panel Double Buffering

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