Thread: Canvas in JFrame, does not show content

Without an SSCCE, I'm only guessing, but you might want to read through this: Mixing heavy and light components

Also, I'm not sure what kinds of wonkiness you're doing with your threading. And what LayoutManager are you using? I see you're calling setBounds.

Just second the SSCCE advice. I would be interested to test this, but cannot given the small code snippet. It may have to do with mixing heavy and light components, but presume it has more to do with mixing Swing and SWT (I presume this is SWT?).

Here it is, thanks for the link, I didnt know what a SSCCE was before:

here is the code that I am using and that I am implementing on my other program:

 
import org.eclipse.swt.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.awt.SWT_AWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.browser.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.*;
 
import javax.swing.*;
 
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.Canvas;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
 
public class Browser2 {
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
 
		final Display display = new Display();
 
	       JFrame frm = new JFrame("MyBrowser"); 
	       Canvas embedded = new Canvas(); 
 
 
	       frm.add(embedded, BorderLayout.CENTER);  
 
	       frm.pack(); 
	       frm.setBounds(0, 0, 800, 400);
 
 
	       final Shell shell = SWT_AWT.new_Shell(display, embedded); 
	       shell.setLayout(new FillLayout(SWT.VERTICAL)); 
 
	      shell.pack();
 
	       final Browser browser = installBrowser(shell, "http://javamagic.altervista.org/index.html"); 
	       frm.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() 
	       { 
	           public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) 
	           { 
	           e.getWindow().dispose(); 
 
	           } 
	       }); 
 
 
 
		final BrowserFunction getLocation = new CustomFunction (browser, "sendInfo2Java");
 
 
	       frm.setVisible(true); 
	       while (frm.isDisplayable()) 
	           if (!display.readAndDispatch()) 
	               display.sleep(); 
 
	}
 
 
	static class CustomFunction extends BrowserFunction {
		CustomFunction (Browser browser, String name) {
			super (browser, name);
		}
		public Object function (Object[] arguments) {
 
 
			System.out.println (arguments[0].toString());
 
			Object returnValue = new Object[] {};
			return returnValue;
		}
	}
 
 
	public static Browser installBrowser(Shell parent, String homeURL) 
	   { 
	       Browser browser = new Browser(parent, SWT.EMBEDDED); 
	       browser.setUrl(homeURL); 
	       return browser; 
	   } 
}

On the real project I have changed this main into a method and called using:

	Runnable Map = new Runnable() {
			  public void run() {
 
				  BrowserMap.Init();
			  }
			};

Some info:

It is called AFTER all the other methods (DB and GUI).
I basically put the Canvas into a JPanel and add the JPanel to the main frame.

I am using swing for the GUI.

And I am not using any layout manager, I am just setting statically their position on the frame (do you suggest me to use one?)
I have tried this only on MacOSX, and I have found out that around 50% of the times the JPanel is not loaded.

Extra: Whenever it is successfully shown, I have noticed that when I move around the map (from google.maps), the only way to refresh what is contained on the JPanel is to Resize the form, I have tried to repack the form, to revalidate the component etc... but nothing...

I don't have time right now to scour this article, but it looks like it might be beneficial to you: Eclipse Corner Article: Swing/SWT Integration