Swing repaint an Area?

[daniel.w.gelder]

Hi,

I have a JPanel in an applet that ocasionally needs part of itself
redrawn. The invalid area is not a rectangle, but instead an Area.
Instead of calling repaint() with the Area's bounds, can I pass the
Area into Swing and have redrawing clipped to that, to save repainting
time?

Thank you.
Dan