Ah, it's been a while since I started a new Thread on JGO.
Well here I go:
I've been using JApplet for a long time. Now I decided that Swing isn't really necessary when I want to make a game that takes full control of the entire window so I decided to switch to Applet. However, it is not working! I thought I must have a bug somewhere in my game code that prevents this so instead of debugging my entire game, I made a simple test case:
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| import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.Canvas;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferStrategy;
public class Test extends Applet implements Runnable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = -5975037209475083278L;
private Canvas canvas;
public void init() {
setSize(500,500);
setIgnoreRepaint(true);
canvas = new Canvas();
add(canvas);
canvas.createBufferStrategy(2);
}
public void start() {
new Thread(this).start();
}
public void run() {
BufferStrategy strategy = canvas.getBufferStrategy();
long time = 0;
int frames = 0;
while(true) {
if(System.nanoTime() >= time+1e9) {
System.out.println(frames);
frames = 0;
time = System.nanoTime();
}
frames++;
try {
do {
do {
Graphics2D g = (Graphics2D)strategy.getDrawGraphics();
g.fillRect(50, 50, 100, 100);
g.dispose();
}while(strategy.contentsRestored());
strategy.show();
}while(strategy.contentsLost());
}
catch(Exception exc) {
exc.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
} |
And sure enough! Try it yourself and see. I tested this in the browser and in the applet viewer. Nothing shows up.
I'm on Windows 7 64-bit using the latest and greatest Java 6 Update 26
However, extend JApplet instead of Applet and, voila, it works magnificently 
I'm clueless so any explanations and/or workarounds are appreciated
