The issue is likely to be that the clipping shapes are "unioned" together, resulting in a much wider coverage than you intended. For instance, if you have (0,0)-(50,50) and (100,100)-(150,150), then they union together to (0,0)-(150,150), suddenly taking a broad range of other areas in.
You could possibly create a third, component compatible image, and draw into that. It should not have similar clipping issues since you're painting directly rather than via Swing's repaint manager. Just a thought, really. [Message sent by forum member 'tarbo' (tarbo)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=208285 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".