[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: repaint embedded AWT frame

[Simon Morris <simonm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:27:49 +0100, Simon Morris
<simonm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:39:03 +0000 (UTC), not@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Volker
>Pilz) wrote:
>
>>Simon Morris wrote:
>>
>>> and at this stage I want to force a repaint so that I see the new
>>> JPanel. I was hoping that some combination of composite.redraw(),
>>> frame.repaint(), or frame.invalidate() would do this, but the only way
>>> I've found is to resize the composite, which isn't very satisfactory.
>>> Can anyone suggest a way to force a repaint more directly?
>>
>>I had the same Problem. Try the following:
>>composite.setVisible(false);
>>[your code for update the content]
>>composite.setVisible(true);
>>
>>This works fine for me.
>>
>
>That solves my problem - thanks very much.
>

In fact the call to setVisible(true) worked on its own, and avoided
the flicker produced by setVisible(false) then setVisible(true).

S.