GUI screwed up sometimes with Custom Look & Feel

Hello,
i've got a few problems with my JApplet. Im using a custom Look and Feel (Kunststoff, http://www.incors.org/index.php3 very nice) - my problem is that sometimes (often) my gui is screwed up - some parts like a JPane are not rendered in the custom look & feel, they are still default, but the buttons are. Or my whole dialog looks like a little puzzle - small pieces are cut out.
I have no idea how to avoid these bugs, im not certain that this is because of the custom look and feel because i seem to have the same problems with the metal look and feel from java.
I tryed to put a repaint() in my initiliaze of my dialog classes at the very end, but no success either...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I reached my 1000th hour logged on the phone with customer service

I've been using Verizon jetpacks for 9 months now. Seemed like a sweet deal. Prepaid. Convenient. Fast and reliable. WRONG! I logged my 1000th hour on the phone with customer service today after a 5 hour "troubleshooting" session, second one this week. I've been having to make this exact 5 hour phone call every week sometimes up to 4x per week. I've never spent less than 3 hours on the phone or gone more than 4 days without having to contact customer "service." Naturally, this is pretty ignorant sounding. But, I paid $100 for a significantly small amount of data. I prepaid to be exact. For a service to be rendered one must be able to receive the service paid for. That's simply not the case. I paid $100 for this data already and can't actually use it with any convenience. Unless of course, 5-20 per week on the phone with customer service is typical of any other company. Other than Virgin Mobile, No. It's in fact an extremely absurd amount time for ANY customer to spend on the phone with ANY customer service. No exception. I feel rather abused, used and ****** over by this so call "service". I lost 6 clients. They all sued me in small claims for $3000 each for failing to maintain my end due to my weekly dose of hours on the phone with customer service and NOT doing the job I was employed to do. Nope. Instead, I spent my time with Verizon Customer Service and COURT! Yay! So, I've lost my home, my car was repo'd, $18k loss, 6 customers... and not one time has Verizon spent one second and said to me "Verizon could be the problem"... NEVER has that been the case in all 1000 hours logged. Interesting? No. Just abusive. I resent having to call customer service at all any more. It's even causing my mental health to suffer after all this. You know what is found every time? I'm on a prepaid plan on a device customer service told me to purchase. But wait... thats the second device. Every week I'm told The OTHER device is the one that works with this plan... then a few days later, no that other device is the one that works with the plan, a few days later... The OTHER DEVICE IS THE ONE THAT WORKS.. FFS. See a pattern? I've been directed by Verizon to replace my device 3 times, at $100+ per device plus the $10 sim card, plus the 5 hours on the phone with them every few days. I'd say there's an issue with customer service. First, yes it IS possible there is an issue on YOUR end. I'm pretty sure that having to buy a new device every time I call isn't really the best answer. Second, for the extremely limited amount of data I can't afford to watch a video for fear of capping my data before the end of the 30 days because its 10gig of data. Yeah, 2 whole movies worth! Third, its possible to be wrong, yet Verizon has never, not one single time chose to check their end. ALWAYS and ONLY my end. I don't find that surprising or ironic, I find it the most ignorant and worst customer service in existence only second to Virgin Mobile. Virgin mobile did finally acknowledge the issue was in the broken tower nearby. It took them 6 months and yes... 100's of hours on the phone. Verizon hasn't made any effort to accept responsibility for this issue. I'm sure they are very sincere when they are consuming my 5 hours per phone call trouble shooting my device for the third time this week. It's actually to the point where they have violated their terms of service and failed to look into an issue on their end. The tower has been hit. Hmmm... Ironic. Its quite a distance from here, but is a main tower that has caused an outage across my state. Verizon couldnt tell me that? Is that admitting your wrong so hard to do that it's easier to spend 5 hours on the phone trouble shooting my device than 5 mins looking for outages? Yeah, it could have saved my house and job, but I'm the customer... clueless idiot at the mercy of a company who is never wrong nor makes an effort to correct an issue on their end before stealing my hours from me. At one point, I actually fell asleep in my 2nd hour on hold. Customer service? Nope, a waste. I could dig it if this issue was on my end, but I'm confident that spending up to 20 hours a week troubleshooting to no avail is a HUGE red flag that its not on my end after all. Only cost me a house, a job, car and $18k plus court costs and fees. Fair? Nope. But it would be nice if just ONCE there was an initiative to provide actual support to a customer. I KNOW if this is my experience it is impossible to be an isolated incident with me alone. If I'm tying up 5 hours on the phone, what is the next guy doing? waiting to trouble shoot his box for the next 5 hours over a downed tower. Pride is what that is. People too proud to be wrong at someone else's expense. Definitely an issue if I've paid $900 in 9 months and I spent more hours on the phone with customer service than I have online. Pretty ******. Verizon, you ARE WRONG. Owning it would save the embarrassment of having to ***** about it on this site. I didnt' deserve my losses and it was at my expense and it is STILL at my expense that I'm having to contact that 888-294-6804 number. I've got it memorized like it was my best friends number - that's how often and how many times i've used it. Shame how simple it would be if Verizon wasn't so ******* proud and spent a few moments looking for issues on their end before stealing 5 hours from me doing the obvious over and over and over again... Small claims can be used to sue up to $3k. Looks like that's my only alternative, perhaps if I do that maybe checking for issues on their end will occur instead of pretending its impossible. It feels like I went to mcd's and paid for a meal at the window that took 5 hours to get a bag of raw patties thrown at me from inside after sitting at the window for 5 hours and waiting. I'm wrong of course. I'm am the customer. How could I possibly be right? I've troubleshooted my device over 1000 times. Of course its on my end. Must be.... 1000 times isn't enough to find out there's a potential issue that isn't related to my specific device, no? Is it gonna take 1000 more hours on the phone before one of the representatives decide to look for an outage before the 5 hours of daily trouble shooting? Thats a huge red flag that just keeps getting ignored. I can't think of any other companies besides these two internet providers that finds that acceptable. Better Business Bureau didn't. I'll be filing that complaint with them next. High time Verizon stepped off such a prideful pedestal and seek a remedy before a class action suit sinks them in the future from all other raging bitches not being provided with reasonable service. It's not a rant, this has been a life shattering experience for me and a simple quick check for an issue on their end could have prevented it. BAD BAD BAD Customer service policies to keep a customer on the phone for that length of time to repetitiously check the exact same thing repeatedly every few days. Disgusted. How dare that term "service" even be used if they can't provide "service" via support or otherwise. I'm on the internet finally after 10 hours and the news reported the Verizon tower down. Not verizon... A police officer interviewed on a Detroit News station instead. God knows police have nothing better to do in Detroit than make news appearances for verizon.

Simple solution. Get a real internet service and not a cell phone internet connection service it was never meant to be used as the primary internet service
And how do you lose a home and job and be sued as you claim. What over 10 Gb of data? Give me a break
In my city small claims is $5000.00
And over that amount you can go to a superior court to have your issue settled.
http://www.bbb.org
Good Luck, Elector

Crashing out with Custom L&F

Hi, I have a couple of problems when trying to use OHJ in a (I think) basic fashion.
I initialise the hlep with:
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URL helpsetLoc = ClassLoader.getSystemResource("help.hs");
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This seems to work fine. If I try to use F1 functionality via:
helpManager.addComponent(myPanel, "myTopic", true, false);
then nothing seems to happen at all. If I try to launch it on the press of a button, using:
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then it crashes out in a big way with:
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     at javax.swing.JViewport.paint(JViewport.java:707)
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<snip>
I have a slightly custom L&F in use. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong ??
Thanks,
Michael.

Hi again.
I solved the crash part. It was mainly down to my Look & Feel not having set some property or other. I'm not entirely sure which, but as the Swing L&F is particularly fussy (and terribly implemented), it would seem it's more of a generic problem, than one with Oracle Help. Anyway, It's working now for whatever reason, so I'm not going to worry too much about that.
The F1 problem is related to the fact that I'm using JDK1.4. Sun, in their inimitable wisdom, changed the way KeyEvents work, with their new FocusManager, so that only the component that has focus, can receive events.
This is no good for generic F1 help over say, a Button or panel, which may not be the currently focused component (you have the focus in a textfield, but want contextual help on the component you're holding the mouse over when you press F1).
Again, I've solved it using a workaround. Basically, it involves making sure any components that need contextual cursor-hover help, implement KeyDispatcher, and the fire events to their KeyListeners whenever they receive a KeyDispatchEvent and the mouse is over them (so they implement MouseListener as well). It's a bit of a kludge, but it provides the user with the correct functionality.
Thanks for the help.
Michael.

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