On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:11:58 GMT, "timothy ma and constance lee"
<timcons1@shaw.ca> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said

First learn to draw arbitrary shapes. See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/canvas.html
http://mindprod.com/products.html#SCREWS

Then read up on timers, see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/timer.html

You change the picture frequently to give the illusion of movement. If
you just repaint a clipregion, of the changed region, it will work
faster than if you repaint the whole thing.

On Sep 28, 8:11 pm, "timothy ma and constance lee" <timco...@shaw.ca>
wrote:

You might want to look at Java 2D. I believe it is available in 1.3 -
Google around and you might even find some demo/samples to get
started.

-cheers,
Manish