Alessandro, John, when run on my home machine, your TestCanvas3D class does the same as my contrived Test program I had posted earlier. It gets a Invalid fifoTypegd error (hwcExecuteStatusWinFifo) and goes into an infinite loop virtually freezing my machine.
As far as the graphics drivers are concerned : I'm using the last ones the were released by 3dfx way back when! I'm pretty sure that this problem did not occur under J3D131beta! Curious about what the J3D crowd at sun thinks about this. Btw, nothing changes when I use a button (instead of a menu) to create the canvas3d, of course after making sure that the action event received is not just any action event, but the one intended. Hans =========================================================================== 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".