Java Swing 2D animation

Question

i'm using eclipse platform and window builder pro within. I've already created new project (window builder -> swing designer -> application window); Now I want my app to show some 2D animation (for example rectangle that moves) without blinking screen. What's the best way to do that? Right now i have only these methods in my code: MainWindow() constructor, initialize() and main(String[] args)

I've already read some info about displaying a 2D Graphics, but they all use different components and idk which way is the best and i don't always understand the methods that they use.

Pretty tired of seeing useful questions "closed as not constructive". — Clintm, Oct 08 '13 at 22:18

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '12 at 22:00

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A simple animation demo I wrote a while ago to get you started (has some other dependencies within the project)

http://tus.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tus/tjacobs/animation/

answered Mar 27 '12 at 22:00

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See also [TUS](https://sourceforge.net/projects/tus/), as well as this related [example](http://stackoverflow.com/a/3256941/230513). – trashgod Mar 27 '12 at 22:15
ok, i've got it already, thanks) – user1049280 Mar 27 '12 at 22:36
@trashgod another one, very bad for Java & Swing community that this man didn't survived *Sun_To_Oracle_Xxx* – mKorbel Mar 28 '12 at 06:48

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 05 '12 at 13:11

I recently made an open-source application with layout animations. For this, I used a very simple animation engine I made, the Universal Tween Engine. It is generic enough to animate any object of any java project, not just swing components.

The new version of the application is not released yet, but as soon as I'll have the time, I'll share every source. You may have completed your project long ago, but I hope the answer may still be useful :)

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Java Swing 2D animation

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