What I basically want to do is to paint on an image in my non-main
object, then pass this image to the main function (which is an applet),
thus being able to draw i using drawImage in the paint-function. The
erroneous source code is this (stripped from uninteresting parts)

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;

public class Arnold {    
   private Image im;
   private Graphics imGraphics;

   public void Arnold() {
    //im = new Image();             // Not possible
    //imGraphics = new Graphics();
    im = Component.createImage(1,1); //
    imGraphics = im.getGraphics();
   }

   // Methods painting on im via imGraphics
       
   public Image getImage() {
    return im;
   }

}

    / Dan