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canvas repaint

I have an applet with a class "Square" that extends canvas.
Below is an example of my code :

private Square square;
private TextArea textarea;

public void init () {
     textarea = new TextArea();
     square = new Square();
}

.....   //other codes
.....

public void repaintingCanvas() {
        textarea.append ("testing");       //line 1
        square.repaint();                  //line 2  
        textarea.append ("after testing"); //line 3
        }    


How come I will be able to see the execution of line 1 and line 3 first before seeing the execution of line 2. I tried to "sleep" the applet after line 2, hoping to see the effect of square.repaint()incase it takes time to repaint, but it will still sleep then I can see the words "after testing" in textarea (execution of line 3) and only later will I see the effect of repaint() of the particular canvas.

 Why is this so, is it because I am not optimizing my codes properly or because all directions of applet will be executed first and execution of canvas is done later.

fyi....applet implements runnable

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