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Joi,
  I'm relatively new with Java but have been intensely 
trying to learn this language for the past 2 months.
  One thing that is troubling to me is all the "fixes" 
that each user may have to face.  These direct X and
video driver problems users are likely to face
could be a support nightmare.  Is there an end to this
madness?
  Regarding my PC -- I have updated the Video Driver and
reinstalled DirectX.  I got JBuilder to properly display
by changing the 'vmparam" in jdk.config.  Now when I 
run a simple application from the command line such as 
java -jar swing-1.jar, the video gets corrupted when I 
mouse over menu items.  Do you think the -D option is needed
as JBuilder as an IDE works ok now?

Thanks -- Carl



Joi Ellis <joi@aravox.com> wrote:
>Carl Moser wrote:
>> 
>> Swing components still messes up my screen even after
>> I a) updated my video driver to a May2000 version
>> obtained from Compaq's website, and b) reloaded
>> full version of DirectX 7a.  I guess Java is really
>> not that portable :-)
>> 
>> Any ideas are appreciated -- Carl
>> 
>
>Did you try launching JBuilder with the -D parameter I mentioned?
>I think you have to edit your bin/jbuilder script or some config file
>so that JBuilder itself runs with the -D...noddraw thing.
>
>I'm feeling too lazy to go dig that parameter out of the other thread.
>
>The Sun JVM depends upon a bug-free Directdraw driver in your video
>card.  You can disable DirectDraw altogether at the expense of
>video performance within the JVM.
>
>--
>Joi Ellis                    Software Engineer
>Aravox Technologies          joi@aravox.com, gyles19@visi.com
>
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