ah, good old Java Swing. Spent years working on big Swing projects. BTW, you want to wrap statements like this in a logger.isDebugEnabled() especially in the

ah, good old Java Swing. Spent years working on big Swing projects. BTW, you want to wrap statements like this in a logger.isDebugEnabled() especially in the paint loop because otherwise you always incur the cost of string concat, debug or not! > logger.debug("REPAINT COMPONENT "+(CNT++)+" ("+ImageComponent.getDebugColorName()+") portion " + bounds_.x +","+bounds_.y+" " +bounds_.width+"x"+bounds_.height);