JMenu Menu hiding behind JPanel

[Ron Patel]

Hey everyone,

I have a very strange problem that I never saw before. I have a JFrame with a JMenu. As the content pane, I have a JPanel that contains a GUI generated by code written using JNI.

When I click on the JMenu, the drop down menu hides behind the JPanel so nobody can see the menu.

However, if I use just a blank JPanel, I can see the drop down menu.

How can you fix this?

[jefff willis]

Sounds like you need to make it a heavyweight object.

Put something like this in your panel code:

setLightWeightPopupEnabled( false );