Repainting Continuously in Java

Question

I have a Java program that uses threads. In my run method, I have:

public void run() {
    while(thread != null){
        repaint();
        System.out.print         


        

Answer 1

Cal repaint from a Swing Timer. That will not block the GUI, and will happen at whatever interval specified in the timer. Of course, by the nature of Swing/AWT painting, if the timer is set to repeat too fast, calls to paint might be coalesced (effectively ignored).

Also, make sure the method is an override using:

@Override
public void paintComponent(Graphics g){