Robot.createScreenCapture() is capturing the hidden frames also.

Hi All,
I am providing a full screen capture facility of desktop through a button present inside a JFrame (mainFrame). Whenever user clicks on the button, I am hiding the mainFrame (containing the button) and then doing a full screen capture of the desktop using robot.createScreenCapture() method. Once the screen is captured, I am showing that screen in a separate JFrame which is undecorated and is of full screen size.
My problem is, when I am capturing the desktop, I am getting the mainFrame also inside that capture image even I am hiding it before calling capture method. Sometimes, the mainFrame is getting captured with all components inside it and sometimes, just empty frame. This is happening only on Windows and Linux system. On MAC, same code is working fine.
I tried by calling sleep() method on current thread, by disposing the mainFrame once the button is clicked etc but in vain.
Can anybody provide me the way to overcome this issue? I need to capture only the desktop.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
VPKVL

Where is your SSCCE?Hi camickr,
Thanks for your quick reply. I prepared SSCCE in similar lines as my actual application, but to my surprise, I am not getting that issue on that. But its still reproducible within my main application. I am using JDK5. Will provide the sample application once I am able to reproduce the issue in that.

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