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Max:

I suspect all JFC programmers have sets of "wiggle" code like that to
coax the UI to look right.

-Rich

Max Polk wrote:
> 
> > JFC doesn't paint very often and explicit calls to repaint() or
> > invalidate()/validate() are pretty standard in JFC coding.  It's worse
> > in Applets since neither browser supports resizing (though you get a
> > little break if your Applet lives in a frame).
> 
> I once had to do the following, and *NOTHING* *ELSE* would work.  Even
> one slight change from this would not repaint.  Here was my "magic" that
> I saw someone else do, so I adopted it:
> 
>      // trying to repaint dirty component "whatever" below:
>      whatever.invalidate ();
>      whatever.validate ();
>      whatever.repaint ();
> 
> As I said, leave even one of those out, or switch the order, and it just
> won't work.  Why?  I have no idea!

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