Animation - replaying an animation

Hey everyone,
I've written an application with an animation using the Timer object. In order to stop the animation I call the stop method of the Timer class. From what i've read this just pauses the timer. My problem is that if i display the animation once it displays well. However, if i try to run the animation again nothing happens. I'm running the animation from a different class and have tried instantiating the animation class again but it still doesn't start the animation again. Any ideas would be great.
Thanks!

juxD wrote:
Hey thanks for your replies.
I'm using javax.swing timer. Basically my animation is of fireworks so what I do to create the fireworks effect is draw a lot of colored dots on screen moving outwards initially increasing in size then decreasing into nothing (i.e. disappearing). So as such i'm not using frames. When i initialize the animation, its meant to set the starting positions of the dots, then when the timer fires, the new coordinates and size of the dots is reset. Not sure if you're understanding - can post the code if it helps.Then in your case, the "counter" is really the whole state of the fireworks model, meaning the positions of the particles, their size, and whatever else defines how they're drawn each time. To start over, you have to reset all of that back to it's original state, just like it was when it started for the first time.
A simple way to do that is to take the code in the constructor that initializes the fireworks, and put it into a reset method, which you can call both from the constructor, and whenever you need to restart the animation.

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