[vtkusers] vtkPanel and JLayeredPane Components transparency problem

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Hi Jonathan,

VTK use an AWT heavy weight component for its rendering which doesn't
behave always correctly with swing. But Java7 was supposed to solve
most of the issue. Regarding your transparency issue, I have no clue
if that can be achieved at all, but if you were not using Java7, just
give a try and let us know. Moreover, there is a flag that can be used
when you start the JVM that might help as well.
(-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true)

Seb

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Jonathan Ruiz Peinado
<jonathan.ruiz3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi I'm using an vtkPanel as a component of a JLayeredPane, what i would like
> to do is use the vtkPanel as background and put some JPanel (or other
> Jcomponent) over it with some text and marks.
>
> So the problem is that even setting the component over the vtkPanel as not
> opaque (setOpaque(false)) it's is showing the default gray background
> instead the render inside the vtkPanel. Seems to me that the JComponents are
> not really transparent but they are copying the background color of the
> compnent bellow them instead.
>
> ¿ Is there a way to get real transparency using a vtkPanel as background (I
> mean as the lower layer in the JLayeredPane) ?
>
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