Grey Screen - stuck in paint()???

Question

Hi all,
I'm at the late stages of a java front-end project and I have just started having a recurring problem:
when the application starts up it appears to be getting stuck in the initial paint which leaves a frame with a plain grey background. When the application is resized or any other event which would cause a repaint it is ok but is getting stuck until then. Adding a repaint()/validate()/revalidate() etc after the show() call doesn't seem to solve the problem.
One thing that makes this more mystifying is that it only happens in 1 of 5 times the application is started and not at all on some PC's so I can't debug it.
Has anyone else seen this problem or got a solution?
Any help wpuld be greatly appreciated as I've run out of ideas
Cheers
Phil

Answer 1

I got this problem when i was doing my project last year...
i tried alot of ways but i can't really recall which methods works..
1 way i will try is to paint all controls in the paint() method.
public void paint()
//do all the things
button.paint();
repaint();
try and see if it works.. because i can't really recall my solutions..
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