Why is Toolkit.synch() useful for animation? When should I use it?
Created May 4, 2012
Sandip Chitale Many of the windowing systems (e.g. Xlib of X windows) buffer the requests relating to
graphics. Toolkit.sync() is supposed to flush
all the buffered requests for actual processing. You can easily see why this will
be applicable in the case of animation.
I have used it sometimes to make the component.setCursor(...) actually take effect. I think though that it is only useful in X widnows environment. I am not sure about MS windows.