Can't Display MenuBar in Full Screen Mode

Java 2D
#1

Ok first post so be gentle :wink:
My app can be run in full screen mode or in windowed mode. The structure of it is a Frame with a MenuBar and a Panel added to it respectfully. I use Active Rendering using a bufferStrategy. I display the game info on the Panel, and I display my graphics in the frame (I used to have it displayed in another Panel but once I switched to a bufferStrategy that did not work). Ok so in windowed mode everything works fine, but when I put the app into Full Screen mode things start to go bad. First of all the Panel that I display my game info on starts to flicker, and the menubar disappears completely. I solved the Panel flickering problem by calling frame.paintAll() in my rendering loop, that ā€œseemedā€ to fix that problem but my MenuBar is still not showing. I know it is there because I can sort of clik on it but then it quickly disappears.

My app used to be a JFrame with a JPanel and a JMenuBar but in windowed mode the JmenuBarā€™s children would get hidden by my frame, so I changed everything to AWT and that ā€œsolvedā€ the problem.

here is the rendering code

 
public void update() {
  Dimension d = (new Dime(GAMEWIDTH,GAMEHEIGHT));
            
    if( !bufferStrategy.contentsLost() ) { 
      Graphics g = bufferStrategy.getDrawGraphics(); 
                
       if( fs ){  // if full screen
         frame.paintAll(g);  
         // Clear the drawing buffer to black 
         g.setColor( Color.black );                 
         g.fillRect( 0, 19, d.width-1, d.height+23 );
       }
       else{
         // Clear the drawing buffer to white 
         g.setColor( Color.black );                 
         g.fillRect( 0, 41, d.width-1, d.height ); 
         g.setColor( Color.lightGray );
         g.fillRect( d.width-1, 41, d.width, d.height ); 
       }
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Any help? anyone encounter this problem before with the MenuBar disappearing?

Thanks for your time
Peppi

#2

I canā€™t say I really read your post but AWT/Swing stuff isnā€™t really intended for fullscreen mode and if it works at all you should be surprised.

IMO game GUI is a big problem since you basically have to create it all yourself. So far as Iā€™ve seen, no one has released anything like that publicly. The stuff Iā€™ve seen has been extremely simple and wouldnt work all that great for any semi-complex game.

I dunno how to help you. :confused: