Hi.

I'm trying to draw a very large image with Swing.
My input is an int array, that I would like to display as an image.
(each int is a RGB value)
The array is quite large, and I want to avoid creating a temporary
image
to draw to the offscreen buffer of a jpanel...
Here is the code I want to improve:
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final class MyPanel extends JPanel {

    private final MemoryImageSource mis;
    private final FilteredImageSource fis;
    private final AreaAveragingScaleFilter aas = new
AreaAveragingScaleFilter(100, 100);

    // this is the constructor for my class.
    // w is the image desired width
    // h is the image desired height
    // pixels is a w*h array with an rgb value.
    public MyPanel(int w, int h, int[] pixels) {
        // MemoryImageSource is a producer that feeds each
        // of it's registered consumer with values of 'pixels'
        mis = new MemoryImageSource(w, h, pixels, 0, w);
    }

    /**
    * @param g
    * @see javax.swing.JComponent#paintComponent(java.awt.Graphics)
    */
    protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
        // The method create image creates a temporary image
        // which is drawn to the offscreen buffer of this panel.
        g2.drawImage(getToolkit().createImage(mis), 0, 0, Color.BLACK,null);
    }
}
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This is not optimal, since the tempo image creation leads to an
OutOfMemory when
the pixels array is big.

To solve that problem, I would like to bypass the creation of a tempo
image.
This could be done if I had the offscreen image for the instance of
MyPanel.
I tryed using the RepaintManager, but w/o the results I hopped.
So if sbdy has any idea, I would greatly approciate.