Accumulating Drawn Objects

[Greg Torrance]

Hi there,
This question confuses me ...
The way to accumulate drawn objects on the screen is to:
a) Call update() from within repaint()
b) Call update() from within paint()
c) Call accumulate() from within paint()
d) Call paint() from within update()
What is meant by "accumulate"? I'm guessing it's just a synonym for paint (to avoid being too obvious), in which case I'd guess "d" because update() _does_ call paint() (which in turn paints objects to the screen). Sound reasonable?
Thanks!
Greg

[Dave Brookes]

Could equally well be a) as you would normally call repaint() from within own applet methods and that in turn calls update() .
repaint =====> update() =====> paint()
Very strange wording
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Regards,
Dave

[Saritha Pilla]

The default version of update() paints with the default Background color and then calls paint()...in which case the previous contents get erased. In order to avoid this override update() to call paint directly without painting with the BAckground color as in...
public void update(Graphics g)
{
paint(g);
}