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Re: Terminology

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My instincts here seem similar to John's.  I don't think of painting on 
RAM in Java.  Direct RAM buffers are an outmoded concept that we don't 
use any more.  If I was using a system that did offer the old graphics 
modes for some reason, I would think of that as painting on RAM.  Java 
not so much.


On 10/31/2011 2:16 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> When you paint a JPanel with a paintComponent what do you call the
> area of RAM you paint on, the thing that the Graphics object points
> to?  In AWT you might call it the canvas.


AWT actually does call it a Canvas:

<http://download.java.net/jdk7/archive/b123/docs/api/java/awt/Canvas.html>

In Swing I would probably think of this as painting on an Image 
(specifically a BufferedImage), but John is also correct here that a 
BufferedImage has-a Graphics context that is used to do the painting:

<http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/2d/images/drawonimage.html>

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