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Jim Stoll wrote:
> 
> I hadn't tried the invalidate() followed by the repaint(), but unfortunately, that
> didn't solve the problem either (though it did improve it over what it was prior
> to the show() method approach...)
> 
> If you get a few moments, try adding another button that adds a menu to the
> menubar and see if that works for you.  When I add a menu, it doesn't show up
> until I click the JFrame's border.  When I remove a menu, I end up w/ a 'hole' in
> the menubar where the removed item was.

In my obviously much simpler example, it still works.
 
> The general scheme that I have is as follows:
> MDIFrame extends JFrame
> MDIDesktopPane extends JDesktopPane
> MDIDesktopManager extends DefaultDesktopManager
> MDISheet extends JInternalFrame

Yikes!  Much more complex.

What about asking the menuBar for its parent and telling it
to repaint() after having called invalidate() on the menuBar?

  menuBar.invalidate();
  menuBar.getParent().repaint(100);


Paul Furbacher  (TeamB)