Viewsonic VX2452MH-CH 24" blinking and static.

Question

Situation
ViewSonic Monitor will blink a few times then go static after 10-15 minutes of use. Then must disconnect and reconnect after a few minutes. Problem will persist.
Setup
MacBook Air 13" Mid-2013 | OS X 10.9.4 | 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 | 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 | Intel HD Graphics 5000
DVI cable to DVI-thunderbolt connector.
Have tried various thunderbolt connectors.
Have not tried other DVI cables or HDMI or VGA option.
Reference
ViewSonic VX2235wm widescreen LCD
Have downloaded SwitchResX.
Not sure what custom setting to use to get MacBook Air video card to synch with monitor.
If all else fails, will resort to VGA option but would like to hack current configuration if possible.

Answer 1

Hi unsafe,
Just a thought: about 1/5 of the way down your constructor you
have the linesi2.addActionListener(this);
i2.addActionListener(this);I think the second one should be "i3".
(1) Perhaps you should rename your class "Notepad" rather than
"notepad" - java programers find it helpful to keep class names
looking very different to variables. (Don't forget to rename the
.java file as well).
(2) Descriptive names are a good thing: "boldBut" instead of "b1",
"fontCB" instead of "c2" and so on. (If you had lots of CheckBoxes
as well as ComboBoxes that might be "fontComboB"). This is quite
easy to do with an editor that will search and replace.
(3) I found one big long constructor a bit hard to read. Think about
breaking it up a bit. For instance each of the JMenus (File Edit Format
View Help) might have its own method that is called once by the
constructor - the method would create the JMenu, populate it and
return it to the constructor.
Changes like these are a bit of a pain when you just want to get
the thing (assignment?) finished, so it's best to get them right
from the very first line (short documented methods, descriptive
variable names etc). But it compiles! That has to be worth something.
Cheers,
Peter