Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To paint over (an already painted surface).
- To paint again, as a picture or a part of a picture.
- noun In the fine arts, a portion of a picture which has been painted over or repainted; a patch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To paint anew or again
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
paint anew or again, especially if recently painted. - verb computing To
draw orrender again on the display. - noun The act or process of painting something again, especially if recently painted.
- noun computing The act of drawing or rendering again on the display.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb paint again
- verb paint again
Etymologies
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Examples
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As you can see from Listing 1, after we receive a key event from the user, we call the repaint () method to redraw the entire screen and display which user event was received by the application.
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I really want to optimize the graphics rendering, so that minimal processing is required, and I dont want to call repaint for EVERY single little change, and repaint the entire thing.
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Where Ratchet is concerned, he is most likely a straight repaint, which is fine by me, I like the original mold, really. and I know this is late in the game for it, but to me it looks like a photoshopped picture of the original Ratchet toy. maybe a mock-up for the package? aside from heavy shadowing ...
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Where Ratchet is concerned, he is most likely a straight repaint, which is fine by me, I like the original mold, really. and I know this is late in the game for it, but to me it looks like a photoshopped picture of the original Ratchet toy. maybe a mock-up for the package? aside from heavy shadowing ...
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Then Listing 13 calls the repaint method to cause the off-screen image to be copied to the canvas.
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Then Listing 13 calls the repaint method to cause the off-screen image to be copied to the canvas.
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Listing 24 also calls the repaint method to copy the off-screen image to the canvas on the computer screen.
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I did a "repaint" of two smaller battalions and converted them into one larger 60 figure battalion to use in our BAR games.
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Then: I need to have dinner and then pack and do various things to get ready to go visit my boyfriend such as repaint my toenails.
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Have your clients choose other colors and watch as you "repaint" the house over and over again, quickly and easily.
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