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This isn't really a bug, it's rather a bug fix. Nevertheless it's quite
curious and we'd really like a professional opinion about it. Here goes:

We are using Swing on dual PII 333 and 400 NT machines with Service Pack 5.
Our graphics cards are Matrox Millenium II s. Swing has major problems with
this setup, the programs function well but the interface has serious update
problems, usually comes up blank. We do suspect it's to do with the Matroxes
rather than with NT or the dual PIIs, we aren't quite certain yet.

Nevertheless...

We recently installed JBuilder 3 on the machines. Miraculously, whenJBuilder
is running, applications that utilise Swing display just fine - whether
executed through JBuilder or not!. I clarify this: We need only to have
JBuilder running, no project open or any other file needs to be open for
this to happen, we just run our application from the DOS prompt. Close
JBuilder and Swing goes back to its bad habit.

Could anyone please hint as to what might be going on? How does JBuilder 3
affect the way Java applications or Swing in particular run on a system? We
are desperately trying to trace and document this bug and would appreciate
your help.

Konstantinos Tsapakis


3D-MATIC Faraday Partnership
University of Glasgow




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