Summary
Double buffering is an essential technique for dragging lightweight components and for implementing flicker-free animations. Double buffering is implemented by drawing the next frame in an animation into an offscreen buffer; once the offscreen buffer represents the next frame in the animation, it is copied to the screen. This chapter has presented a handful of reusable classes that you can use for implementing double buffering.
In the next chapter, we will build on the DoubleBufferedContainer class presented in this chapter by implementing a Playfield class that can contain animated sprites.
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