[vtkusers] Re: VTK/Java/Swing - components flickering - direct draw problem?

[David Marshburn]

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> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:21:01 -0700
> From: Eran Guendelman <erang at stanford.edu>
> Subject: [vtkusers] VTK/Java/Swing - components flickering - direct
> 	draw	problem?
> 
> Sometimes our application gets into a state where our slider jumps back 
> and forth as we're dragging on it... essentially every redraw it 
> alternates from being under the mouse (where it should be) and in some 
> other random location (which seems to be a stale back buffer or 
> something).
> 
> So I was just wondering, have other people experienced this?  And is it 
> possible to fix this without requiring hardware acceleration to be 
> turned off for the whole computer?


yes, we've seen this, too.  you can use the following two command-line 
parameters to the jre to make the behavior stop:

-Dsun.java2d.ddoffscreen=false -Dsun.java2d.gdiblit=false 

-david