Our application displays a 2D view of our data (mainly maps) and then allows the user to change to a 3D view. The 2D and 3D views are generated by custom C++ code that is SWIG'ed into our Swing GUI and wrapped within a JComponent. These JComponents are then displayed within another parent JComponent.

Our problem is that when we change from the 2D to the 3D view and then back to the 2D view, when we resize the window the 2D view does not get resized. The resize events don't get sent to the 2D view.

Our application runs under Linux (Fedora 11). We're running Java version 1.6.0_12.

Here is some sample code in which I've replaced the 2D view and 3D view with two 2 JButtons, that produces the same behaviour. Once you go to 3D and then back to 2D, resizing the window does not cause the 2D view to be resized.

/* TestFrame.java
 * Compile with: $ javac TestFrame.java
 * Run with: $ java TestFrame
 */

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.event.ComponentEvent;
import java.awt.event.ComponentListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;

public class TestFrame extends javax.swing.JFrame {

    private boolean mode2D = true;
    private JButton view2D = null;
    private JButton view3D = null;
    private Container parent = null;

    public TestFrame() {
        initComponents();
        containerPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        view2D = new JButton("2D View");
        view2D.addComponentListener(new MyListener("2D VIEW"));
        containerPanel.add(view2D);
    }

    private void changerButtonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {        
        if (parent == null) {
            parent = view2D.getParent();
        }
        if (mode2D) {
            System.out.println("Going from 2D to 3D");

            view2D.setVisible(false);

            if (view3D != null) {
                view3D.setVisible(true);
            } else {
                view3D = new JButton("3D View");
                view3D.addComponentListener(new MyListener("3D VIEW"));   
                parent.add(view3D);
            }

            ((JButton) evt.getSource()).setText("Change to 2D");
            mode2D = false;
        } else {
            System.out.println("Going from 3D to 2D");
            view3D.setVisible(false);
            view2D.setVisible(true);
            ((JButton) evt.getSource()).setText("Change to 3D");
            mode2D = true;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                new TestFrame().setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
    private javax.swing.JPanel containerPanel;
    private javax.swing.JButton changerButton;

    private class MyListener implements ComponentListener {
        private String name;
        public MyListener(String name) {
            this.name = name;
        }
        @Override
        public void componentHidden(ComponentEvent event) {
            System.out.println("@@@ [" + name + "] component Hidden");
        }
        @Override
        public void componentResized(ComponentEvent event) {
            System.out.println("@@@ [" + name + "] component Resized");
        }
        @Override
        public void componentShown(ComponentEvent event) {
            System.out.println("@@@ [" + name + "] component Shown");
        }
        @Override
        public void componentMoved(ComponentEvent event) {
            System.out.println("@@@ [" + name + "] component Moved");
        }
    };

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    private void initComponents() {
        containerPanel = new javax.swing.JPanel();
        changerButton = new javax.swing.JButton();
        setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        containerPanel.setBorder(new javax.swing.border.MatteBorder(null));
        javax.swing.GroupLayout containerPanelLayout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(containerPanel);
        containerPanel.setLayout(containerPanelLayout);
        containerPanelLayout.setHorizontalGroup(
            containerPanelLayout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGap(0, 374, Short.MAX_VALUE)
        );
        containerPanelLayout.setVerticalGroup(
            containerPanelLayout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGap(0, 239, Short.MAX_VALUE)
        );
        changerButton.setText("Change to 3D");
        changerButton.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                changerButtonActionPerformed(evt);
            }
        });
        javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
        getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
        layout.setHorizontalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addContainerGap()
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
                    .addComponent(containerPanel, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                    .addComponent(changerButton))
                .addContainerGap())
        );
        layout.setVerticalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addContainerGap()
                .addComponent(containerPanel, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED)
                .addComponent(changerButton)
                .addContainerGap())
        );
        pack();
    }
}

(My apologies for the Netbeans generated GUI code)

I should mention that when we call parent.remove(view2D) and parent.add(view3D) to change the views the X Windows ID of our 3D view changes and we're unable to get our 3D view back. Therefore parent.remove(view2D) and parent.add(view3D) is not really a solution and we have to call setVisible(false) and setVisible(true) on the JComponents that contain our 2D and 3D views in order to hide and show them.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.