I'm working with an application in which I add a heavyweight (Canvas) to a JFrame. The Canvas is a 3rd party component, so I am required to keep it heavyweight. I'd like to add capabilities for the user to draw on the canvas and paint a selection rectangle. I don't think I can do this with the glass pane since the heavyweight canvas wil...
I'm working with an application that draws on a GLCanvas. I'd like to add a "floating menu" on top of it (something I would do in Swing by adding a menu to the glass pane). Since GLCanvas doesn't extend Container, what would be the suggested way to do this? thanks, Jeff ...
What are the Light weight and heavy weight threads in terms of java???? ...
I have a Shape class containing potentially many vertices, and I was contemplating making copy-constructor/copy-assignment private to prevent accidental needless copying of my heavyweight class (for example, passing by value instead of by reference). To make a copy of Shape, one would have to deliberately call a "clone" or "duplicate" m...
I've got a problem. In LayeredPane I have 2 components: heavyweight coponent and JComponent(or any other what I could draw text in) that is placed above the first one. I'd like JComponent to have transparent background, but it has black background. Heavyweight coponent is a component that renders video and JComponent is component what I ...
Hi, I have an applet where I am drawing stuff by overriding the paint() method, and have added a Canvas to the applet, which will take up the whole screen. This canvas seems to be being drawn after my paint()ing, and so my applet's paint()ed stuff is invisible. Any ideas on how to force the canvas to be drawn before my paint method on my...