I'd modify your layer so it has the capability to know to not do
anything when it's paint() method is called.
- Don
On Mar 28, 2005, at 10:01 AM, Rick Lane wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> For several reasons, I do not use the Drawing Tool (or the XOR paint
> mode)
> to perform my dragging functions, instead I actually re-draw the
> elements in
> their entirety as they're dragged. To do this, I create a
> BufferedImage
> with all the elements *except* those that are being dragged so that on
> subsequent repaints, I can simply draw the BI and then draw that which
> I'm
> dragging.
>
> The first way I implemented this was to create a transparent BI, so
> that I
> didn't really care what was going on underneath (in other layers), I
> could
> simply draw my transparent BI on top of them. However, the speed
> increase I
> get from *not* using transparency is too good to turn down, and so I'm
> left
> with a problem. I want to call mapBean.paintAll(Graphics) and pass in
> my
> BI's graphics context, however I don't want my layer to be included in
> this
> (because as it works now, my paintComponents() function draws the BI,
> and so
> I get erratic behavior when I try to paint the BI as I'm trying to
> build the
> BI). Is there some way I can temporarily tell the MapBean not to
> paint this
> layer? If paintAll was blocking, I could simply set a Boolean flag so
> that
> my layer wouldn't paint, but because a separate thread takes care of
> this, I
> can't control the behavior. I was thinking of somehow removing this
> layer
> from the MapBean and then adding it, but I haven't been successful
> with this
> approach either.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Rick
>
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