On Wednesday 26 March 2003 17:59, Mike Hearn wrote: > Next problem - java appears to use DirectDraw? It wipes out the screen > contents in the same way QuickTime did when using DirectDraw, which > obviously gets in the way of working with the app :)
Yes. Swing uses DirectDraw. But you can disable direct draw usage with the -Dsun.java2d.noddraw option. (That is running program with 'java -Dsun.java2d.noddraw main.Class' ) I had to use this option when I had a S3 Virge DX (graphic card), since it had glitches with ddraw. Regards Zsolt
