AWT PopupMenu not showing Chinese Characters

Question

Hi all.
I have a mostly Swing application that must display English and Chinese characters. Changing the Swing components has been easy, however I am having problems changing an AWT PopupMenu that i use in combination with the new TrayIcon features of Java 6. TrayIcon requires an awt PopupMenu, so i cannot use a Swing JPopupMenu even if i wanted to.
The problem is that instead of the correct words i am getting just empty squares, which seem to indicate a problem. I have tried setting the font to "SimSun" but this made no difference.
I also tried this hack to use a JPopupMenu with Trayicon
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ixmal/archive/2006/05/using_jpopupmen.html
This correctly showed the Chinese characters but it threw up lots of 'class cast' exceptions.
My ideal solution would be to fix the problems with PopupMenu as apposed to fixing the class cast exception errors with the JPopMenu hack.
Would anyone know why i cannot display Chinese characters in a AWT PopupMenu? have i missed something?
Thanks
Steven

Answer 1

hi!
check this out
package com.ani;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Label;
import java.awt.Panel;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
public class showHindi extends Panel
     public showHindi()
          setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          String unicodeText = "\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094D\u0924\u0947";
          Font fn = new Font("Arial Unicode MS", Font.PLAIN, 32);
          Label lblText = new Label(unicodeText) {
               @Override
               public void paint(Graphics g)
                    //super.paint(g);
                    g.clearRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
                    String str = getText();
                    g.drawChars(str.toCharArray(), 0, str.length(), 0, 30);
                    //System.out.println(getText());
          lblText.setFont(fn);
          JLabel lblText1 = new JLabel(unicodeText);
          lblText1.setFont(fn);
          add(lblText, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          add(lblText1, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
     public static void main(String[] args)
          Frame frm = new Frame("Test Hindi");
          frm.add(new showHindi());
          frm.setSize(600, 400);
          frm.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
               @Override
               public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
                    System.exit(0);
          frm.setVisible(true);
}this is working in my machine. i have used JLabel and Label both to just show you the difference. there is a flickering bug because of rendering, i hope you can manage that.
regards
Aniruddha