Smooth fast move and repaint()

Question

I\'m writing easy space invaders and have a problem with moving ship. Basically I change position of ship and then repaint(). If the change is big it is more li

Answer 1

Please post some code? Is the whole game running inside a canvas or is every ship a JComponent? For games I would use JavaFX or a game engine like http://jmonkeyengine.com. To create smooth animations in Swing you can use a animation framework:

• http://java.net/projects/timingframework
• http://kenai.com/projects/trident/pages/Home