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Java and Windows 8 Toolbar

I'm working on a program in Java and I'm having trouble with the titlebar in W8. For some reason the co-ords (0,0) are up and hidden in the titlebar. If I want to draw something at (0,0) I have to translate the Graphics object to (0,10) to get it to appear.

I currently have:

        g.setColor(Color.BLACK);
        g.fillRect(0, 0, Config.WIDTH + 10, Config.HEIGHT + 10);
        g.translate(0, 10);
        g.setColor(Color.WHITE);
        g.setFont(fonts.getFont(0));
        g.drawString("FPS: " + scr.fps, 0, 0);

This works, however I'm wanting to remove g.translate(0, 10); incase this line ends up causing problems later on.

Solution

  • The issue has nothing to do with Windows 8, but the fact that you've overridden paint of a top level container.

    The frame border is painting within the bounds of the window.

    A frame has a content pane which should be used to layout the contents or perform custom painting.

    Instead of overriding paint of the top level container, create your self a custom component (extending from something like JPanel) and override it's paintComponent method.

    You can then either add it to the frames content pane or replace the frames content pane

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