Graphic update method

I have moving Graphics in a JPanel that are updated via Runnable with a call to repaint. I'm working on changing my code to help reduce image flickering.
Based on my research, it seems I should make use of the update method along with repaint to reduce the amount of flickering. As I understand it, the update method does not clear the image before repaint rather it repaints on top of the old image. Is that interpretation correct?...or does it "replace" the previous image first, THEN clears the old image?

The existing update() method clears the graphics by drawing the background color all over it, and the it calls paint(), which you have presumably overridden with your drawing code.
If you override update() and put your drawing code there, then you draw without erasing the old stuff.
But that alone probably isn't what you want, and won't do much to prevent flickering, and will leave artifacts of the previous image as well. Generally one overrides update() because the clearing of the screen is unnecessary, usually because one is doing double buffering.
In double buffering, you draw to an undisplayed image, and then draw the image to the graphics.

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Conversion from awt to Swing, colored list widget, and awt update() method

Now that my Interactive Color Wheel program/applet is in Swing, I guess I should continue my previous thread in here from the AWT forum ("list widget with different colors for each list item?"):
* list widget with different colors for each list item?
My current issue involves two canvas (well, JPanel) refresh issues likely linked to double buffering. You can see them by running the following file with "java -jar SIHwheel.jar":
* http://r0k.us/rock/Junk/SIHwheel.jar
[edit add]
(Heh, I just noticed Firefox and Chrome under Windows 7 will allow you to run thie .jar directly from the link. Cool.)
[edit]
If you don't trust me and would rather run it as an applet, use:
* http://r0k.us/rock/Junk/SIHwheel.html
(For some reason the first issue doesn't manifest when running as applet.)
1) The canvas goes "wonky-white" when the user first clicks on the wheel. What is supposed to happen is simply the user sees another dot on the wheel for his new selected color. Forcing a complete redraw via any of the GUI buttons at the bottom sets things right. The canvas behaves itself from then on, at least until minimized or resized, at which point one needs to click a GUI button again. I'll be disabling resizing, but minimizing will still be allowed.
2) A button image, and sometimes toolTip text, from an entirely different JPanel will appear in the ULC (0,0) of my canvas.
Upon first running the new Swing version, I had thought everything was perfect. I soon realized though that my old AWT update() method was never getting called. The desired case when the user clicks somewhere on the wheel is that a new dot appears on his selected color. This usually allows them to see what colors have been viewed before. The old paint(), and now paintComponent(), clear the canvas, erasing all the previous dots.
I soon learned that Swing does not call update(). I had been using it to intercept refresh events where only one of the components on my canvas needing updating. Most usefully, don't redraw the wheel (and forget the dots) when you don't need to. The way I chose to handle this is to slightly modify the update() to a boolean method. I renamed it partialOnly() and call it
at the beginning of paintComponent(). If it returns true, paintComponent() itself returns, and no clearing of the canvas occurs.
Since I first posted about these two issues, I've kludged-in a fix to #1. (The linked .jar file does not contain this kludge, so you can see the issue.) The kludge is included in the following code snippet:
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
        Rectangle ulc;
     if (font == null) defineFont(g);
     // handle partial repaints of specific items
     if (partialOnly(g)) return;
        ... // follow with the normal, full-canvas refresh
    private boolean partialOnly(Graphics g)
     boolean     imDone = true;
     if (resized > 0) // this "if { }" clause is my kludge
     {   // should enter on 1 or 2
         imDone = false;
         resized += 1;     // clock thru two forced-full paints
         if (resized > 2) resized = 0;
        if (wedgeOnly)
         putDotOnWheel(g);
            paintWedge(g);
         drawSnake(g);
         drawSatSnake(g);
         updateLumaBars(g);
            wedgeOnly = false;
          else if (wheelOnly)
            wheelOnly = false;
          else
            imDone = false; // was paint() when method was update() in the AWT version
        return(imDone);
    }Forcing two initial full paintComponent()s does whatever magic the double-buffering infrastructure needs to avoid the "wonky-white" problem. This also happens on a minimize; I've disabled resizing other than minimization. Even though it works, I consider it a kludge.
The second issue is not solved. All I can figure is that the double buffers are shared between the two JPanels, and the artifact buttons and toolTips at (0,0) are the result. I tried simply clearing the top twenty lines of the canvas when partialOnly() returns true, but for some reason that causes other canvas artifacting further down. And that was just a second kludge anyway.
Sorry for being so long-winded. What is the right way to avoid these problems?
-- Rich
Edited by: RichF on Oct 15, 2010 8:43 PM

Darryl, I'm not doing any custom double buffering. My goal was to simply replicate the functionality of awt's update() method. And yes, I have started with the Swing tutorial. I believe it was there that I learned update() is not part of the Swing infrastructure.
Problem 1: I don't see the effect you describe (or I just don't understand the description)Piet, were you viewing the program (via the .jar) or the applet (via the .html)? For whatever reason, problem 1 does not manifest itself as an applet, only a program. FTR I'm running JDK/JRE 1.6 under Windows 7. As a program, just click anywhere in the wheel. The whole canvas goes wonky-white, and the wheel doesn't even show. If it happens, you'll understand. ;)
Are you aware that repaint() can have a rectangle argument? And are you aware that the Graphics object has a clip depicting the area that will be affected by painting? You might use these for your partial painting.Yes and yes. Here is an enumeration of most of the update regions:
enum AoI    // areas of interest
    LUMA_SNAKE, GREY_SNAKE, HUEBORHOOD, BULB_LABEL, LUMA_WEDGE,
    LAST_COLOR, BRIGHTNESS_BOX, INFO_BOX, VERSION,
    COLOR_NAME, EXACT_COLOR, LUMA_BUTTON, LUMA_BARS, GUI_INTENSITY,
    QUANTIZATION_ERROR
}That list doesn't even include the large color intensity wedge to the right, nor the color wheel itself. I have a method that will return a Rectangle for any of the AoI's. One problem is that the wheel is a circle, and a containing rectangle will overlap with some of the other AoI's. I could build an infrastructure to handle this mess one clip region at a time, but I think it would add a lot of unnecessary complexity.
I think the bigger picture is that, though it is now updated to Swing, some of the original 1998 design decisions are no longer relevant. Back then I was running Windows 98 on a single-core processor clocked at significantly less than 1 GHz. You could actually watch the canvas update itself. The color wheel alone fills over 1000 arcs, and the color intensity wedge has over 75 update regions of its own. While kind of interesting to watch, it's not 1998 any more. My multi-core processor runs at over 2 GHz, and my graphic card is way, way beyond anything that existed last century. Full canvas updates probably take less than 0.1 sec, and that is with double-buffering!
So, I think you're right. Let the silly paintComponent() do it's thing unhindered. If I want to track old dots on the wheel, keep an array of Points, remembering maybe the last 10. As a final step in the repainting process, decide how many of those old dots to display, and do it.
Thanks, guys, for being a sounding board.
Oh, I'm moving forward on implementing the color list widget. I've already added a 3rd JPanel, which is a column to the left of the main paint canvas. It will contain 3 GUI items:
1) the color list widget itself, initially sorted by name
2) 3 radio buttons allowing user to resort the list by name, hue, or hex
3) a hex-entry JTextField (which is all that is there at this very moment), allowing exact color request
The color list widget will fill most of the column from the top, followed by the radio buttons, with hex-entry at bottom.
For weeks I had in mind that I wanted a pop-up color list widget. Then you shared your ColorList class, and it was so obvious the list should just be there all the time. :)
-- Rich

Problem with update method

import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.Applet;
public class graphplotter extends Applet
public void init()
repaint();
public void update(Graphics g)
g.drawRect(0,100,100,100);
g.drawLine(50,100,50,200);
g.drawLine(0,150,200,150);
this code above does not draw the rectangle and line
automatically when the applet loads.
how to rectify this.

i used the update method because i wanted to add new images to the existsing background image.if i use the paint method the even the existing backgroung image again has to be painted again.

Update methode in model-view-controller-pattern doesn't work!

I'm writing a program in Java which contains several classes. It must be possible to produce an array random which contains Human-objects and the Humans all have a date. In the program it must be possible to set the length of the array (the number of humans to be produced) and the age of the humans. In Dutch you can see this where is written: Aantal mensen (amount of humans) and 'Maximum leeftijd' (Maximum age). Here you can find an image of the graphical user interface: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-b63cYMGvdM/SUb2Y62xRWI/AAAAAAAAB1A/05RLjfzUMXI/s1600-h/straightselectiondemo.JPG
The problem I get is that use the model-view-controller-pattern. So I have a model which contains several methodes and this is written in a class which inherits form Observable. One methode is observed and this method is called 'produceerRandomArray()' (This means: produce random array). This method contains the following code:
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for (int i = 0; i < this.modelmens.length; i++) {
          System.out.println(this.modelmens.toString());
this.setChanged();
this.notifyObservers();
Notice the methods setChanged() and notifyObservers. In the MVC-patterns, these methods are used because they keep an eye on what's happening in this class. If this method is called, the Observers will notice it.
So I have a button with the text 'Genereer' as you can see on the image. If you click on the button it should generate at random an array. I wrote a controller with the following code:
package kristofvanhooymissen.sorteren;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
/**Klasse GenereerListener.
* @author Kristof Van Hooymissen
public class GenereerController implements ActionListener {
     protected StraightSelectionModel model;
     /**Constructor.
     *@param model Een instantie van het model wordt aan de constructor meegegeven.
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     * Bevat code om de toepassing te sluiten.
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     this.model=new StraightSelectionModel();
     try{
     this.model.produceerMensArray();
     } catch (NegativeValueException e){
          System.out.println("U gaf een negatieve waarde in!");
     this.model.setAantalMensen((Integer)NumberSpinnerPanel.mensen.getValue());
     this.model.setOuderdom((Integer)NumberSpinnerPanel.leeftijd.getValue());
StraighSelectionModel is of course my model class. Nevermind the methods setAantalMensen and setOuderdom. They are used to set the length of the array of human-objects and their age.
Okay. If I click the button my observers will notice it because of the setChanged and notifyObservers-methods. An update-methode in a class which implements Observer.
This method contains the follow code:
public void update(Observable arg0,Object arg1){
          System.out.println("Update-methode");
          Mens[] temp=this.model.getMensArray();
          for (int i = 0; i < temp.length; i++) {
               OnbehandeldeLijst.setTextArea(temp[i].toString()+"\n");
This method should get the method out of the model-class, because the produceerRandomArray()-methode which has been called by clicking on the button will save the produce array in the model-class. The method getMensArray will put it back here in the object named temp which is an array of Mens-objects (Human-objects). Then aftwards the array should be put in the textarea of the unsorted list as you could see left on the screen on the image.
Notice that in the beginning of this method there is a System.out.println-command to print to the screen as a test that the update-method has been called.
The problem is that this update method won't work. My Observable class should notice that something happened with the setChanged() and notifyObservers()-methods, and after this the update class in the classes which implement Observer should me executed. But nothing happenens. My controllers works, the method in the model (produceerRandomArray() -- produce random array) has been executed, but my update-method won't work.
Does anyone has an explanation for this? I have to get this done for my exam an the 5th of january, so everything that could help me would be nice.
Thanks a lot,
Kristo

This was driving me nuts, I put in a larger SSD today going from a 120GB to a 240GB and blew away my Windows Partition to make the process easier to expand OS X, etc. After installing windows again the only thing in device manager that wouldn't load was the Bluetooh USB Host Controller. Tried every package in Bootcamp for version 4.0.4033 and 5.0.5033 and no luck.
Finally came across this site:
http://ron.dotsch.org/2011/11/how-to-get-bluetooth-to-work-in-parallels-windows- 7-64-bit-and-os-x-10-7-lion/
1) Basically Right click the Device in Device manager, Go to Properties, Select Details tab, Choose Hardware ids from Property Drop down.   Copy the shortest Value, his was USB\VID_05AC&PID_8218
2) Find your bootcamp drivers and under bootcamp/drivers/apple/x64 copy AppleBluetoothInstaller64 to a folder on your desktop and unzip it. I use winrar to Extract to the same folder.
3) Find the files that got extracted/unzipped and open the file with notepad called AppleBT64.inf
4) Look for the following lines:
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[Apple.NTamd64.6.1]
; No action
; OS will load in-box driver.
Get rid of the last two lines the following:
; No action
; OS will load in-box driver.
And add this line, paste your numbers in you got earlier for USB\VID_05ac&PID_8218:
Apple Built-in Bluetooth=AppleBt, USB\VID_05ac&PID_8218
So in the end it should look like the following:
; for Windows 7 only
[Apple.NTamd64.6.1]
Apple Built-in Bluetooth=AppleBt, USB\VID_05ac&PID_8218
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Problem with Update method in Applet..............

Hi,
i have a textfield and Button in my Applet. Applet is running locally. if i typed my directory in the textfield and press the reterive button means Applet has to display all the images in that paticular directory. Actually in the button's action performed method i am storing all the file names in the string array. Then i am going through the loop and trying to display the images side by side by increasing X co-ordinate value in the drawImage. But what is happening is, it is displaying last image only not all the images. ie repaint is not calling my update method for each time. it is calling at the end of loop only.
In the paint method i am calling super.paint(Graphics g). the simillar way do i need to call the update method
can you give me some idea
the code is
public void init() {
try {
image = getImage(new URL("file:///c:/Nainar/logo.jpg"));
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
public void paint(Graphics g) {
update(g);
public void update(Graphics g) {
g.drawImage(image,startX,startY,this);
super.paint(g);
void jButton1_actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
String location = textFieldControl2.getText();
if( location != null) {
File filePath = new File(location);
if( filePath.isDirectory()) {
String fileList[] = filePath.list();
imageFileName = new String[fileList.length];
for( int i = 0; i < fileList.length; i++) {
if( fileList.endsWith(".jpg")) {
try {
imageFileName[i] = location+"/"+fileList[i];
image = getImage(new URL("file:///"+location+"/"+fileList[i])).getScaledInstance(100,100,Image.SCALE_DEFAULT);
startX += 50;
System.out.println("File Name : "+imageFileName[i]);
// i guess problem i here repaint is not calling my update method evry time
repaint();
}catch(MalformedURLException murle) {
System.out.println(murle.toString());
Thanks in advance
null

Learn about the distinction between a data model and its visualisation, and maybe MVC. Then realize that the painted stuff on the canvas is no usable data model and can't be modified after it was painted but needs to be redrawn completely. Then start again.

Update method

I am writing a simple test application that plots a line depending on some values read from an array. I dont want to redraw the full line everytime a new point is added to the end of the line, instead i just want to leave the points already plotted and just draw a line between the last point and the next point in the array. Here is the code. when i run the code only the last point(line) gets drawn. i read that if you overwrite the update() method the screen should not be cleared.
public class NewPanel extends JPanel {
     int[] array;
     int ii = 0;
     //Graphics g;
     public NewPanel(){
          array = new int[200];
          for(ii = 0; ii <200; ii++ ){
               array[ii] = 100;
               repaint();
          this.setVisible(true);
          this.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
     public void update(Graphics g){
          paint(g);
     public void paint(Graphics g){
          g.setColor(Color.BLACK);
          g.drawLine(ii,array[ii],ii + 1,array[ii + 1]);
}

1/ Calling repaint puts an event onto the window manager's queue. When the window manager's thread gets time, the window is repainted.
The loop increments ii to 200 and puts 200 event onto the queue in a very short space of time.
By the time the window manager gets to take the first event off the queue and call update(), ii already is 200.
To see the update happen, you need to put your animation into a seperate thread, and incorproate a delay in it.
2/ update is called when the background is to be repainted by the component. Overriding it to call paint means that the background is not repainted by the component. It does not mean that anything you draw will stay on the window.
Different platforms apply different amounts of buffering to the window, so what you have drawn may persist until the panel is resized, of it may not persist at all. It may get overwritten if the windon gets covered, it may not.
Swing components override update to delegate drawing the background to paintComponent() anyway, so for swing you only ever need override paintComponent().
To get a persistant image, you would use an Image as a double buffer.
But in this case, as the image data is already in an integer array, the easier thing is to use the drawPolyline method.
The following shows the update happening as data is set by a separate thread, and allows the call to clear the background to be switched on by passing in a command line argument:import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.Random;
public class NewPanel extends JPanel {
int[] xPoint;
int[] yPoint;
int numberPoints;
boolean clear;
static final int MAX_POINTS = 100;
static final int STEP_SIZE = 4;
static final int LEFT = 12;
static final int RING_RADIUS = 6;
public NewPanel (boolean clear){
    xPoint = new int[MAX_POINTS];
    yPoint = new int[MAX_POINTS];
    this.setVisible(true);
    this.setBackground(new Color(255, 255, 220));
    this.clear = clear;
public void animate () {
    new Thread (new Runnable () {
      public synchronized void run () {
        try {
          Random random = new Random();
          numberPoints = 0;
          while (numberPoints<MAX_POINTS) {
            // some random line data
            if (numberPoints==0) {
              yPoint[numberPoints] = getHeight()/2;
            } else {
              yPoint[numberPoints] = yPoint[numberPoints-1] + 10 - random.nextInt(21);
            xPoint[numberPoints] = STEP_SIZE*numberPoints + LEFT;
            numberPoints++;
            repaint();
            Thread.sleep(100);
        } catch (InterruptedException iex) {
    }).start();
static final BasicStroke FAT_STROKE = new BasicStroke (3);
public void paintComponent (Graphics g) {
    // if a command arg is given, clear the background
    if (clear) {
      super.paintComponent(g);
    // draw the line
    if (numberPoints>0) {
      // make it pretty
      Graphics2D g2D = (Graphics2D)g;
      g2D.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
                           RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
      g2D.setStroke(FAT_STROKE);
      g2D.setColor(Color.black);
      // actually draw it
      g2D.drawPolyline(xPoint, yPoint, numberPoints);
      // highlight current point- if many rings show
      // then the background isn't cleared
      g2D.setColor(Color.red);
      g.drawOval(xPoint[numberPoints-1] - RING_RADIUS,
                 yPoint[numberPoints-1] - RING_RADIUS,
                 2*RING_RADIUS,
                 2*RING_RADIUS);
public static void main (String[] args) {
    JFrame frame = new JFrame();
    NewPanel panel = new NewPanel(args.length>0);
    frame.getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
    frame.getContentPane().add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.setSize(2*LEFT+MAX_POINTS*STEP_SIZE, 300);
    frame.setVisible(true);
    panel.animate();
}Pete

Firmware Graphics Update

I installed the latest Max OS update and was prompted to install this firmware graphics update. The wireless mouse and keyboard were not recognized and I couldn't select Update to start the install. I then connected a USB mouse and keyboard and this worked. This firmware graphics update has been updating for the last 30 minutes or so.
What I am getting is a picture of my desktop and the circular progress meter going. I don't think it should be taking this long. Has anyone have any solution to this? Prior to me selecting the Update the message stated that I wait until the update is complete and I shouldn't power cycle the iMac.
iMac 24 Inch display 2.8Ghz, 2600 graphics card

Chuy I recommend the following (best advice I can offer w/o having done this update on that system:
1. worry (I loathe Firmware updates that don't behave they way they are sposed to...)Touch nothing.
2. grab a strong drink if you drink .. Carefully check that you followed all the firmware update instructions precisely from the beginning (even check the apple site on another computer - I'm surprised: usually the instructions say - in step #1 *First remove all non-apple devices*, USB, Firewire etc etc...*)
3. call the /your local Apple dealer/superstore and ask to speak to a genuine wizard or guru Give your name (make sure you *get all their names* and write them down)
4. seek their advice:
ask what will happen if you end up with an unresponsive/unbootable mac...after following their advice.. and how you will fix it. Write down their advice, read it back, then follow it precisely - after thanking them by name.
5. If it works, ring back, ask for them by name , get the store's support email address, thank them profusely & drop a brief email To ATTN Manager*support.... CC Wizard thanking them in writing. (everyone likes appreciation).
6. If it doesn't work, ring back, ask for them by name, get them (no-one else) and plot a 'fix' strategy....
Repeat from step 5.
+Finally, it's not required but it'd be nice if you posted back here...+ (I'm assuming you're getting email via another method)
Best wishes & best of luck (no - it shouldnt take THAT long w/o warning you first)

Overrinding update() method

I'm building a code to practice Java GUI. Actually, I wrote an application to draw one rectangular per one mouse click. However I found the biggest problem in the application. One click draw a rectangular. After another click, the new one is drawn but the previous one disappear! The why is update() method repaint() calls. So I've been trying to override update() method to keep all the rectangulars, but I don't know exactly how to do it. Here's the code I wrote.
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Drawing extends JPanel
int x, y, x1, y1, w, h;
public Drawing()
public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
super.paintComponent(g);
g.drawRect(x, y, w, h);
public void update(Graphics g)
System.out.println("update");
paintComponent(g);
public void setNode(int x, int y, int w, int h)
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
this.w = w;
this.h = h;
repaint();
}

Hi,,
As suggestion :
Mantain a Vector of Rectangles createds at your mouse-click method... and at paintComponent draw all Rectangles in this Vector
Bye

Macbook Pro no longer support Apple Cinema Display after graphic update 1.0

I recently updated my system to ver. 10.5.2 and after that I updated to graphic system 1.0. After that my macbook pro began to have several problems dealing with my 23" Apple Cinema Display.
1- if started in 'closed lid' mode it gives me a kernel panic (shaded screen) error during start up
2- if started in 'open lid' mode it boots fine but whether i decide to close the lid it fails to wake from sleep mode. It starts for one or two seconds and then it gets back to sleep.
So, I made a long time taking test during the weekend and after several "archive and install" I found that this issue is related to the leopard graphic system update 1.0. Somehow this update mess up the way that macbook pro deals with my Apple Cinema Display.
I hope that someone at Apple will address this issue toward a solution in a short time.
I appreciate any other experience in this sense by anybody.
Thank you for any reply.

DGarrett wrote:
Virgin,
Check out the 'Apple Displays' forum and you'll find that you are not alone. MBP/Cinema Display relationship broken since graphics updater. Hopefully an Apple patch soon, or it's time for an Archive and Install w/o updating the graphics.
Best,
DG
Here is the direct link to the Cinema Display forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=981

Problems with Snow Leopard Graphics Update

I downloaded the new graphics update for Snow Leopard, but when I go to install it it says I need at least a version 10.6.4 OS to use it. I double checked my OS, and that is exactly what I have. What's the problem?

Well I found out what was going on in another thread, apparently my computer already has it incorporated in it, just Steam doesn't recognize that.
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Was the "insert or update" method on standard objects taken out of Web Services v2.0 for a reason? Is there an equivalent of this functionality in Web Services v2.0?
Thanks,
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Hello,
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How do you know if you have the Snow Leopard Graphics Update is installed on your Mac? Can one check in system profiler? Is that I went from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4 via software update, and then when I ran Software Update in 10.6.4, it only showed the Mac OS X 10.6.5 Update rather than the Snow Leopard Graphics Update and the security update as supposed to, I was hoping that when I installed the OSX 10.6.5 update it also instlled the Snow Leopard Graphics update and all the Security Updates issued in 10.6.4 run.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

I was hoping that when I installed the OSX 10.6.5 update it also instlled the Snow Leopard Graphics update and all the Security Updates issued in 10.6.4 run.
It did.
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Leopard graphic update

I downloaded and installed the recommended Leopard graphic update, and now certain type on websites appears blurry. I've had this problem before, but fixed it by changing the font smoothing style and text sharpening, however, now no matter what changes I make, the problem persists. Is there anything else I can do? For all intents and purposes major sites like CNN's breaking news banner reads like I'm wearing coke-bottle glasses, and working with larger non-standard type in Pages is giving me a headache. Any advice welcome.

It's actually what I do all the times. When I say that I start in 'closed lid' mode I intend that I open the lid to press the start button and immediately close the lid. In this particular case the Apple Cinema Display remains inactive and after a short while the apple on the lid of my Macbook Pro turns lit and when I open the screen has a black multi language alert which advise me to restart my machine by pressing the start button. After I restart the my Mac in 'open lid' mode and after I log in, appears a message that tells me that the system was restarted after crash and here comes the detailed error that follows:
Thu Feb 21 09:54:28 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A8C8A): Kernel trap at 0x00d76e3f, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0x00000000, CR3: 0x01425000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x00000000, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x00000000
CR2: 0x00000000, EBP: 0x3f25b8a8, ESI: 0x000002d0, EDI: 0x3f25b880
EFL: 0x00010287, EIP: 0x00d76e3f, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x04e00010
Error code: 0x00000002
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x3f25b668 : 0x12b0e1 (0x457024 0x3f25b69c 0x13321a 0x0)
0x3f25b6b8 : 0x1a8c8a (0x460550 0xd76e3f 0xe 0x45fd00)
0x3f25b798 : 0x19eb67 (0x3f25b7b0 0x4e5ac80 0x3f25b8a8 0xd76e3f)
0x3f25b7a8 : 0xd76e3f (0xe 0x24220048 0x10 0xbb0010)
0x3f25b8a8 : 0xd5d042 (0x3f25bb04 0x0 0x3f25b8e8 0x3f11ed)
0x3f25b9a8 : 0xbc4472 (0x2422d000 0x3f25ba80 0x3f25ba80 0x84)
0x3f25ba08 : 0xbbb65e (0x44a4c00 0x3f25ba80 0x3f25ba80 0x84)
0x3f25bb38 : 0xbbcd74 (0x44a4c00 0xbc0358 0x3f25bbec 0x4)
0x3f25bc08 : 0xba8133 (0x44a4c00 0x1 0x0 0x0)
0x3f25bc68 : 0xba193a (0x44a4c00 0x5 0x5 0x44a4c00)
0x3f25bc98 : 0x40db95 (0x44a4c00 0x4646ba8 0x4646ba8 0x0)
0x3f25bce8 : 0x438d33 (0x44a4c00 0x4646ba8 0x4646ba8 0x0)
0x3f25bd48 : 0x18cefa (0x44a4c00 0x4646ba8 0x0 0x0)
0x3f25bdb8 : 0x12d165 (0x4b5d078 0x4264b90 0x3f25bdf8 0x11ee04)
0x3f25bdf8 : 0x126247 (0x4b5d000 0x41591f8 0x4636708 0x0)
0x3f25bf08 : 0x19714c (0x3f25bf44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.NVDAResman(5.1.6)@0xbc3000->0xdeffff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.5)@0xbb5000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4.1)@0x6ad000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5.1)@0xb99000
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.5)@0xbb5000->0xbc2fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4.1)@0x6ad000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5.1)@0xb99000
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5.1)@0xb99000->0xbb4fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4.1)@0x6ad000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
9C31
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0: Tue Feb 5 16:13:22 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.3.13~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F4238BC8)
I hope that Apple will fix this issue as soon as possible.
There is one more thing: as I told before, I thought that the culprit was the graphic update 1,0 but today I have the same problem without it.
Help needed! Thank you.

Which update method to use???

Hi all,
Our client has an average of 1000 sales orders per day.
Which update method will be the best for such a scenario and why?
Please suggest.
Cheers
Jayashree

Obviously Delta Update.
Whenever you have a regular postings in the source system, it is always advised to go for Delta update instead of Full update.
If you go for Full update, day-by-day the number of records will increase and yr data load performance will be badly affected.
In case of Delta, only the changes will be captured and load perofrmance will be consistent.
Regards,
Balaji V

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Hi,
Every time I get an update to Flash and install it, at the end of the install I get the three update choices of ‘Allow Adobe to install updates (recommended)’, ‘Notify me to install updates’ and ‘Never check for updates (not recommended)’. Every time I choose the second option and every single subsequent time there is an update I have to go through the same procedure again because the first option becomes selected. I do NOT want Adobe to perform automatic updates. Is there a way to set it to notify me of updates but never bug me to change my update method? I have tried changing the setting through the Control Panel but this doesn’t make any difference either. I just want to be notified of updates but not be pestered with those same three options EVERY time.

This answer is NOT working. The line "SilentAutoUpdateEnable=0" is already present. And it still queries for the annoying question, even when asked and answered ad nauseum.
Adobe should in the very next update, as a minimum, make it such, that the chosen value in "Choose your update method:" remains PERMANENT and FOR EVER until the user changes it. It is WILDLY annoying to have to answer this question over and over and over and over and over and over again. Make a new value or something that will be written to the mms.cfg file, that will permanently understand this setting, I Want to update, but I want to know when and how and why, and I especially want to do it myself - Automatic updates can for novice users be nice, until it screws up the entire system - but for super user level or above it is an annoyance, that programs do not respect the answers of the user. It SHOULD ask this question ONCE, and never ever there after - unless the user changes the behaviour, in e.g. the mms.cfg file.
I hope this is crystal clear --- it should be, and I cannot fathom that millions of other users are not annoyed by this popup box ... When i press "DONE" ... it should be EXACTLY THAT - notify me to install updates, BUT NOT to ask it every time what "update method" i want to use -- i've only told you a million times before --- just freaking get the answer and understand it.
Annoyed regards : CyberstormXIII

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