Using swing in Full screen sxclusive mode

Hi!
I have created a game which uses swing components.... I have decieded (because it is much cool, and looks nicer) to convert the game to Full screen mode....
Mycurrent GUI consists of two JPanel s. One of which I use the paintComponent method to draw the game board to the JPanel. The other JPanel is split into several other parts which contain the details about each player.
Now, what I want to do is to be able to update the graphics using a BufferStrategy. My question is how would I do this? I tried to create a eperate BufferStrategy for the "Board" JPanel, but I can't as JPanel doesn't support getBufferStrategy(). Then I tried to convert the whole "Board" into Canvas. This I could implemnt but as I rendered the image it was drawn over the second JPanel which is to the right of the "Board"
I was thinking that maybe I could create a FlipBufferStrategy but it's protected and cannot be instantiated in a JPanel.
So what I'm basically asking is how do you use swing components in Full Screen Exclusive mode and using active rendering?
For dukes go to http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=394856&tstart=15&trange=15

Hi,
in case you don't already know it, here's Suns very own tutorial on that topic:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/fullscreen/index.html
JPanel does not support getBufferStrategy() but JFrame (or any other subclass of Window) does. So you could put your JPanel into a JFrame and gain access to the BufferStrategy that way.
Keep in mind that there is still a serious bug in createBufferStrategy() that can result in a deadlock. Browse the Bug Database for a workaround, I can't find it now, but I know that it is there.
Last but not least you could post in the Swing Forum, which would be a more suitable place for a Swing question than the Java3D Forum :)
Regards
Fleischer

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neptune692 wrote:

Edit: Decided to make the font size bigger. Eyestrain is killing me.Hopefully that will carry over to my response and I won't have to edit to add it ;)
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