From: Philip K. Warren <pkw@duke.edu>
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  Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 02:19:43 -0400

A tip when working with images

Just thought I'd drop a tip I've learned along the way if you plan on using
images in your code.  If you use an image, look into the MediaTracker class
which can make sure all the images have loaded before you try to paint
anything.  This was the culprit for our program not being able to print at
all the first time through, but being able to do so perfectly when we called
repaint.

Dunno if this will be of any use to anyone, but it helped us out a lot.

-- Philip