applet looks blurry or flickers

Repainting problem(s)

You're not mixing AWT and Swing are you?

Any code?

post your paint method

All of the above ;-)

And check you have no operations holding up the EDT

jPanel3.setBackground(new java.awt.Color(255,255,255));
        jPanel3 = new JImagePanel(img6);
        jPanel1.add(jPanel3);
        jPanel3.setBounds(400, 400, 280, 150);

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.awt.image.ImageObserver;
import java.applet.Applet;
public class JImagePanel extends JPanel
{
   private Image img;

   public JImagePanel(Image i)
   {
      this.img = i;
     
   }
 public Dimension getPreferredSize()
   {
      return new Dimension(5+img.getWidth(null), 5+img.getHeight(null));
     
   }


   public void paint(Graphics g)
   {
       //super.paint(g);
       g.drawImage(img, 10, 10, this);
       
   }
}

With Swing, you override paintComponent, not paint

The problem is probably elsewhere - possibly in something holding up the EDT

So:

   public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
   {
       super.paintComponent( g );
       g.drawImage(img, 10, 10, this);
   }

>>
should be

  public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
>>

LOL - missed that ;-)

>> With Swing, you override paintComponent, not paint
Well,... you should only override paint() for top level containers (eg. JFrame)

> LOL - missed that ;-)

:-)  I almost did too...  

> Well,... you should only override paint() for top level containers (eg. JFrame)

True, as they don't extend JComponent...

tried that..same problem..

public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
   {
       super.paint(g);
       g.drawImage(img, 10, 10, this);
       
   }

      super.paint(g);

should be

       super.paintComponent(g);

like I said...

>       super.paint(g);

will probably start a loop that will cause a StackOverflowException...

If it isn't that, then it could be a probalem with your image loading (the image may not be loaded by the time the panel appears, and so getPreferredSize goes a bit mad...

Can you post your code where you load the image?

>>tried that..same problem..

I suspected it wouldn't fix the problem totally, but it's nonetheless true. Have you any application threads running in event handlers?

thanks..it worked fine now..

:-)  Cool  :-)

Good luck with it :-)

Tim