JDialog boxes aren't drawing properly
Hi
I'm busy designing the front end for my final year project at uni (on Netbeans 5.5, although I doubt the problem is due to that), and I've suddenly started getting some strange problems with dialog boxes (seems to be since updating to Java 1.6 SDK, although this could be a co-incidence. The dialog boxes are displaying, but with holes in them, so you can see right through to the main frame underneath, then moving the dialog box will cause it to disappear completely,. only showing components on it when you go over them with the move, but never the background. I managed to combat most of this but making it run:
this.update(this.getGraphics());
every time the dialog box is instantiated and on the component move and shown events. This has solved the problem with holes appearing in the window (even if it does create a rather weird trailing effect), but the title bar and border do not refresh, and both still appear initially with holes, eventually completely disappearing.
The GUI itself does not do anything weird with the dialog box (well now it does with havign to manually trigger the update), it did use different lookandfeels, but I've commented out that for the moment (to no avail).
This does seem to be quite a big, but I've not found any help on google for this (ah, the friend of all programmers, surely). I've ran the distribution jar files on multiple computers using multiple version of java (well 1.6 and 1.5), and the problem persists. I've check Netbeans generated code, and I can't fault it. I was just wondering if anyone had any idea of a workaround? Even somehow repainting/updating the title and border as well as the main dialog box, or a cure for the bug? Just so I can get some screenshots.
Thank you for any assistance you can give me.
Alex
Just a quick follow-up in case anyone else runs into this problem (and it may well be a few people do), I had to disable aceleration down to disabling DirectX and Direct3D (so you don't have top disable it full), and seems to suggest that there is a [problem with the way that JAVA works with DirectX (or DirectX works with JAVA I suppose, but as this is a recent problem, I would imagine it may well be JAVA which is at fault IMHO).
Alex
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Hi, The paintbrush tool and the pencil tool draw upside down when I am using my graphics tablet, and I know it's not the tablet that's the cause because it works perfectly in paint and photoshop cc, it's just flash cc that has the issue!! how do I sort this?? Please Help!!! I have uploaded a video describing the issue, with the first program showing Flash Pro CC and the second showing Photoshop CC, but basically it's only the pencil and the paintbrush that are affected, the cursor is properly in sync, as you can see by the use of the square and the line tool. Go to 0:50 to see the issue straight away, though try to watch from the start as I demonstrate that the pen works well with other tools in flash cc.
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Thank you.Cant offer you much advice but the same thing happens on my tablet.
It works in paint but it does not even draw in flash.
But since it does draw in yours why don't you try resetting preferences or exploring your stylus setting in flash for finding the root cause of your problem.
See if you can post a screenshot of your stylus settings to me if resetting preferences does not work.
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