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BTW all UI modifications should be done from the EDT so try not to implement another thread to do it/ repaint.
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BTW all UI modifications should be done from the EDT so try not to implement another thread to do it/ repaint.

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I'm implementing an editor component from scratch (for J2ME environment)<br />
Now I'm totally confused on how to make the caret blink efficiently<br />
A separate thread is used to change the caret's blink-state at regular intervals<br />
But how should I deal with drawing it ?<br />
Should the thread, signal the component (extended from Canvas) to repaint (redrawing everything) ? that would be inefficient in my opinion<br />
It neither can draw directly into the component's Graphics object, only the paint method is responsible for that<br />
Could someone please help me ?
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I'm implementing an editor component from scratch (for J2ME environment)
Now I'm totally confused on how to make the caret blink efficiently
A separate thread is used to change the caret's blink-state at regular intervals
But how should I deal with drawing it ?
Should the thread, signal the component (extended from Canvas) to repaint (redrawing everything) ? that would be inefficient in my opinion
It neither can draw directly into the component's Graphics object, only the paint method is responsible for that
Could someone please help me ?

Implement Blinking Caret

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