Okay, I've got it. You validate the first time to put it into a known state. I think that's what my problem was, I was drawing to it and then validating when I wanted to use it, which then cleared it so it'd be in a known state. Everything works nicely now.
Thank you very much, Chet. Dmitri, it looks like I gave you old code by accident. I can assure you that I do use VolatileImages in my code now. Thank you for all of the suggestions too, I really appreciate them. [Message sent by forum member 'dialup' (dialup)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=147903 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".