Graphic Java™ 1.2, Volume I: AWT, Third Edition

Double Buffering and Animation

From draggable lightweights, it's not too far a leap to a sprite class that can animate itself, as shown in Figure 24-1.

Figure 24-1. Sprites Animated on a Playfield

Sprites animate through a sequence of images; their movement, speed, and rate of animation are all settable. In the Sprite Animation chapter, you'll find a discussion of the Sprite class, a playfield on which that sprites are animated, animate on, in addition to collision detectors capable of detecting collisions between sprites and between sprites and the boundaries of their playfield.