Java3D drawing empty white window (not in applet)

Question

I'm trying to do something interesting using Java 3D, and i'm learning by official tutorials. My problem is: sometimes it shows well without any problem but sometimes window is white and nothing shows until i resize the window. How can i overcome this drawing-update problem?

Here is all code

import com.sun.j3d.utils.geometry.Sphere;
import com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.SimpleUniverse;
import javax.media.j3d.BoundingSphere;
import javax.media.j3d.BranchGroup;
import javax.media.j3d.DirectionalLight;
import javax.media.j3d.Transform3D;
import javax.media.j3d.TransformGroup;
import javax.vecmath.Color3f;
import javax.vecmath.Point3d;
import javax.vecmath.Vector3f;

public class Main {
public Main()
{
    SimpleUniverse simpleUniverse = new SimpleUniverse();
    BranchGroup group = new BranchGroup();
    Sphere sphere = new Sphere(0.5f);

    Color3f light1Color = new Color3f(0.7f,0.7f,5f);
    BoundingSphere bounds = new BoundingSphere(new Point3d(0,0,0),100);
    Vector3f light1Direction = new Vector3f(4.0f,-7.0f,-12.0f);
    DirectionalLight light1 = new DirectionalLight(light1Color,light1Direction);
    light1.setInfluencingBounds(bounds);
    group.addChild(light1);

    Transform3D transform = new Transform3D();
    TransformGroup tg = new TransformGroup();
    Vector3f pos = new Vector3f(0,0,-5);
    transform.setTranslation(pos);
    tg.setTransform(transform);
    tg.addChild(sphere);
    group.addChild(tg);
    simpleUniverse.getViewingPlatform().setNominalViewingTransform();
    simpleUniverse.addBranchGraph(group);
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    new Main();
}
}

Answer 1

This is a common problem with heavyweight rendering components, like the Canvas3D that is used internally for Java3D.

You can avoid this by calling

System.setProperty("sun.awt.noerasebackground", "true");

as the first line of cour main method, or by starting your program with

java YourProgram -Dsun.awt.noerasebackground=true

(Websearches for noerasebackground bring further information about the details, but this flag should solve the issue of the white background)