A couple people have reported similar experiences. The following bugs against awt may be the culprit.
4458337: Merlin: repaints do not work by using javaw on WinNT if double buffering is disa 4664490:REGRESSION: AWT window background isn't drawn on win32 using javaw Doug Twilleager Java 3D Team Sun Microsystems >Subject: [JAVA3D] Bug in Java 3D >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-Accept-Language: en-us >Delivered-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 > >Hi, > >I have found what seems to be a bug in Java 3D (or jdk 1.4.0). > >When running the attached code using javaw, the following happens: > >The Canvas3D gets grey artifacts when you try to open a file using >the standard file opener. If you resize the application the entire >Canvas3D goes blank/grey. If you resize the window and releases >the mouse, everything looks good. But as soon as the mouse is >moved (inside the app), the Canvas3D goes blank/grey. > >The problem is easily solved by starting the application using the >java command instead of the javaw command! > >This program was tested on several machines running Windows 2000 >and using jdk 1.4.0 and java 3D 1.3 beta1 (opengl). > >Best Regards > >Roger Berggren =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".