Hey all,

Seems to be same old subject? Maybe, maybe not, but I wonder if anyone
has seen this occur or can suggest any paths I can take to fix the
problem detailed here.

I have an AWT Canvas panel (GameCanvas) for a game which is used to
show the animation. This is shown correctly 99% of the time. However,
on some occurrences the animation is not shown, or bizarrely (but
interestingly) the animation can be shown in a different Canvas
(ChatCanvas) on the same Applet. This seems significant; both Canvas
codes follows standard OO practice and hence the ChatCanvas should not
be able to access the Objects being drawn on the GameCanvas.

The significant part of the GameCanvas is:

   public void repaintNow() {

       // grab the graphics object and force repainting
       Graphics graphics = getGraphics();

       if (graphics != null) {
           update(graphics);

           // TODO remove test snippet
           if (showTest) {
               graphics.setColor(Color.black);
               String testString = "" + System.currentTimeMillis();
               graphics.drawString(testString, 100, 100);
           }
           // end test code

           graphics.dispose();

       } else {

           // report occurrence
           System.out.println("Unable to get Graphics");

       }
   }

This method is being called, a graphic object is delivered from the
(non overridden) getGraphics call, however the draw methods fail.
Turning on the "showTest" parameter fails to show as well. No System
outs are shown on the console.

This problem has only been reported on JVM 1.4 and 1.5.

I am unable to find any relevant bug reports, or consistently reproduce
the problem.

Any suggestions on what the problem could be or any clues about how I
can track down the problem would help.

Kind Thanks for your time