Updating the GUI of a Java Applet

Question

I'm writing a Java applet in Eclipse. When I click on the button in the applet, it should display a message, but the message won't actually show up until I fiddle with the applet window, like resizing the window. Is there something I should add in my code, so the GUI automatically updates once I click the button?

Answer 1

generally a call to repaint() will take care of that.

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based on mre's comments, this has better information: Java Swing revalidate() vs repaint()