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13.1 General Debug Tips for Swing

Swing's painting infrastructure changed quite extensively in Java SE 6. If you notice painting artifacts specific in Java SE 6 or later releases, you can try turning off the new functionality. This can be done with the property swing.bufferPerWindow.

When you are debugging the Swing code which is executed while any menu is popped up, it is recommended to use the debugger remotely. Otherwise, the debugging process and the application execution block each other, and this prevents further work with the system. If that happens, the only action that can be taken is to kill the X server for Oracle Solaris and Linux. For more information, see this bug in the Bug Database.

The following are some common Swing problems:

The following are some things to consider:

The following identify bad renderers:

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