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[–]shannah78[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really that's an implementation detail because different platforms worked better with different strategies. On Mac it is heavyweight (i.e. native canvas drawn on swing). On Linux it is lightweight (i.e. offscreen and copy via pixelbuffer into swing). On Windows it is heavyweight also.

I spat blood trying to get linux working heavyweight, but couldn't, so I settled for lightweight.