Position of JLabel in Graphics when double buffering - location

Question

I am using a thread to draw some animations, so I need to repaint the label for every frame. To do this without flickering I am updating the label with my backbuffer graphics object (using the lbl.update(bufferedGraphics); method), but when I do this, the label gets repainted in the top left of the Graphics object, and not where setLocation has specified.
How do I specify the location of the label within the graphics, instead of within the panel that owns the label?
Here is an SSCCE:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class LabelSSCCE extends JApplet implements Runnable {
JPanel pnl;
JLabel lbl;
Image buffer;
Graphics bufferedGraphics;
Thread t;
public void init (){
pnl = new JPanel (null);
lbl = new JLabel ();
lbl.setText ("Text");
lbl.setOpaque(true);
add(pnl);
pnl.add (lbl);
lbl.setLocation(100, 100);
lbl.setBounds (100, 100, 200, 20);
buffer = createImage (500, 500);
bufferedGraphics = buffer.getGraphics ();
t = new Thread (this, "Label");
t.start ();
}// init method
public void paint (Graphics g){
if (g != null)
g.drawImage (buffer, 0, 0, this);
}//paint
public void update (Graphics g){
paint (g);
}//update
public void render (){
bufferedGraphics.setColor (Color.WHITE);
bufferedGraphics.fillRect (0, 0, 500, 500);
lbl.update (bufferedGraphics);
update(getGraphics());
}//render
public void run (){
while (true){
try{
render ();
t.sleep (20);
} catch (InterruptedException e){
e.printStackTrace ();
}//catch
}//while
}//run
}//LabelSSCCE

Answer 1

First, convert the JLabel to a BufferedImage:
public BufferedImage componentToImage(Component component)
{
BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(component.getWidth(), component.getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB_PRE);
Graphics g = img.getGraphics();
g.setColor(component.getForeground());
g.setFont(component.getFont());
component.paintAll(g);
Rectangle region = new Rectangle(0, 0, img.getWidth(), img.getHeight());
return img.getSubimage(region.x, region.y, region.width, region.height);
}
Then, change the render method to something like this:
public void render() {
bufferedGraphics.setColor(Color.WHITE);
bufferedGraphics.fillRect(0, 0, 500, 500);
BufferedImage bi = componentToImage(lbl);
bufferedGraphics.drawImage(bi, lbl.getX(), lbl.getY(), null);
update(getGraphics());
}