i''m using the Magician binding, and it said somewheres in the documentation that it doesn''t fully work with Swing. Has anyone tried using Swing in their OpenGL apps/applets? a2k

somelightweightcomponent.setLightWeightPopupEnabled( false );

Works just fine. All the apps on my site are swing. I even, finally, got japplets to work with magician.

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okay, so help me clarify here. um, what are lightweight/heavyweight components? and how can i make them work with ogl/swing? i''m just allowed to use heavyweight components? is that it?

lightweight components are just like floatable stuffs, no?

a2k

I believe that lightweight components use the drawing facilities of the heavyweight components. For example JPopupMenu''s don''t automatically get their own painting methods. They will instead look to the JFrame or JApplet(heavyweights) that it is in to paint itself. I think they did this to speed things up and save some memory. The effect of this is if you have lightweight components in an enviornment that has non-swing components then the lightweight component may be drawn over. GLComponent is based on AWTCanvas. It is heavyweight and does not support lightweight swing components. It will draw over a lightweight component. Not all floating components are lightweight. Not all nonfloating components are heavyweight. By using the setLightWeightPopupEnabled( false ) for JPopupMenu''s you tell it that it needs to do its own repainting. This allows it to draw over a heavyweight component.

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