I'm having a problem with repainting a JPanel inside a JScrollPane. Basically, I'm just trying to 'wrap' my existing EditPanel (it originally extended JPanel) into a JScrollPane. It seems that the JPanel updates too often (mass flickering). How would I stop this from happening? I tried using the setIgnoreRepaint() but it didn't seem to do anything. Will this current implementation work or would I need to create another inner class to fine-tune the JPanel I'm using to display graphics? Skeleton code: public class MyProgram extends JFrame{ public MyProgram(){ super(); add(new EditPanel()); pack(); } private class EditPanel extends JScrollPane{ private JPanel graphicsPanel; public EditPanel(){ graphicsPanel = new JPanel(); } public void paintComponent(Graphics g){ graphicsPanel.revalidate(); //update the scrollpane to current panel size repaint(); Graphics g2 = graphicsPanel.getGraphics(); g2.drawImage(imageToDraw, 0, 0, null); } } }