applet flickering

[sunil chandwani]

i hava cyrix233Mhz with 32mb RAM
whenever I try to execute applets through appletviewer
this always filckers which looks very irrating.and it flickers very fast when I move my mouse inside applet area while execution or when I place my mouse pointer on the closing button of applet. It happens with all applets executed programmed on my computer but dowloaed applets work very well.please help me to rectify this problem.

[Matthew Jones]

Do your appletlets have any animation??
When repaint() is called, it clears the screen, then redraws it.
If you are calling re-paint alot (such as during animation) then the screen will flicker, unless you don't clear the screen, or user double-buffering.