Hi Alex,
Try the attached code and see if that is what you
are looking for. The code is within init(), but
you could improve it by creating a self-contained
JPanel as a subclass of JPanel that will add the
text or events or both, then add it to a part of
the layout of the Container (in this case a JApplet).
Hope this helps. Regards,
Alejandro
Very nice. I'm surprised this worked.
The Java 3D canvas is a heavyweight object, so if you
try to put lightweight Swing components on top of it,
they will show up below the Canvas (obscured). The
exceptions are Popup Menus and Tooltips, which we can
force to be heavyweight.
I think what your app is doing is not putting the Swing
components on top of the Canvas, but next to it. The
BorderLayout, I assume, is only giving the Canvas the
area of the window that you see. It does not extend to
beneath the JTextAreas.
The workaround for putting Swing components on top of
a Canvas 3D is to use AWT components instead.
We were considering using "Skins" to get cool looking
Swing components and putting them on our dashboard
inside the Canvas 3D. (If you don't know about Skins
in Swing see http://javootoo.l2fprod.com/plaf/skinlf/index.php)
But since Swing components are inherently lightweight, I
concluded that it wouldn't work.
Therefore, if we want GUI-like components on our
dashboard, we will have to build them up ourselves.
Anyone know a way around this?
-Paul
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