Java Programming

Alright, I don't usually post on forums when I have an issue. I can usually get a fix or an answer to any problem with the holy reference guide (Google). I'm currently trying to get a bit of a game going in a java (later to be an applet) and have done so in the past... the only issue is that I can't get rid of this freaking flickering!!

I've tried double buffering with Images and BufferedImages, manually in the paint method by writing to a seperate offscreen image and overloading the update(Graphics g) function. Still flickered.

I've tried drawing one simple 32x32 tile and moving across the screen with this at a ridiculously slow frame rate (1 fps etc) - still manages to flicker.

My current incarnation of the program uses BufferStrategy (I've tried 2, 3, 4, and 5 buffers with this) but it STILL flickers. It seems as if whenever I call bufferStrat.show() - that call creates the flicker as it shows the image I've drawn to it. HELP!

Note: my world object's show method returns a BufferedImage object, and it works fine. currently in the buffPaint() method, though, I've taken out the part where it shows what world.show returns and just draws a few of the previously loaded images:

import java.io.*;
import javax.imageio.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class GApplet extends Canvas implements ActionListener
{
	//graphics objects
	Graphics2D graphics2D;
	BufferStrategy bufferStrat;
	static GraphicsConfiguration graphicConf;
	BufferedImage imageList[];
	//game objects
	World gWorld;
	Timer engine;
	//game variables
	int width = 640;
	int height = 480;
	int glob_msdelay = 50;

	//temporary variable to get the images moving
	float tmpx = 15;

	public void buffPaint()
	{
		Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

		//g.drawImage(imageList[0], (int)tmpx, 0, this);

		Graphics screen = bufferStrat.getDrawGraphics();
		///do all drawing here gWorld.show(tmpx, 0, 13, true)
		screen.drawImage(imageList[0], (int)tmpx, 0, this);
		screen.drawImage(imageList[0], (int)tmpx, 32, this);
		screen.drawImage(imageList[0], (int)tmpx, 64, this);
		screen.drawImage(imageList[0], (int)tmpx, 96, this);
		screen.drawImage(imageList[0], (int)tmpx, 128, this);

		//////////////////////
//		screen.dispose();

		bufferStrat.show();

	}

	public void init()
	{
		engine = new Timer(glob_msdelay, this);
		engine.setInitialDelay(0);
		engine.setCoalesce(true);
	}

	public void start()
	{
		engine.start();
	}

	public void stop()
	{
		engine.stop();
	}

	public GApplet(GraphicsConfiguration theGraphicConf) throws IOException
	{
		//create frame
		JFrame gFrame = new JFrame(graphicConf);
		JPanel gPanel = (JPanel)gFrame.getContentPane();
		setBounds(0, 0, width, height);
		gPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(width, height));
		gPanel.setLayout(null);
		gPanel.add(this);
		gFrame.setBounds(0, 0, width, height);
		gFrame.setVisible(true);
		gFrame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter(){
			public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
				System.exit(0);
			}
		});
		gFrame.setResizable(false);
		//create graphics utilities
		createBufferStrategy(2);
		bufferStrat = getBufferStrategy();

		requestFocus();

		//timer initializing
		engine = null;

		//game initializations ================================================
		graphicConf = theGraphicConf;

		bufferStrat = getBufferStrategy();
		System.out.println("Constructed");
		//backBufferImage = graphicConf.createCompatibleImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
		//backBuffer = backBufferImage.createGraphics();

		imageList = new BufferedImage[10];
		//load images
		for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
			imageList[i] = new BufferedImage(32, 32, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
		//load all images HARDCODED
		imageList[0] = ImageIO.read(new File("textures/grass1.png"));
		imageList[1] = ImageIO.read(new File("textures/grass2.png"));
		imageList[2] = ImageIO.read(new File("textures/grass3.png"));

		//construct sprite first for default material
		Sprite tmpSprite = new Sprite(3, 1);
			tmpSprite.setImage(imageList[0], 0);
			tmpSprite.setImage(imageList[1], 1);
			tmpSprite.setImage(imageList[2], 2);
		Material grass = new Material((Sprite)tmpSprite.clone(), 00, 00);

		//create test world
		gWorld = new World(100, 10, 100, (Material)grass.clone(), 640, 480);

	}

	//main loop
	
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
	{

		tmpx += 1;

		buffPaint();

	}

	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
	{

		GApplet theGame = new GApplet(graphicConf);
		theGame.init();
		theGame.start();
	}
}