Hi,
i embedded a PApplet inside a custom application, but the menus of my application are drawn under the PApplet, and can't be clicked.

Anyone has an idea on how i can repair that?

the basic idea is that you can call methods from a menu that will draw things in the applet (kind of like a Gimp based on processing).

The hosting application is made using Swing, the menu bar is a JMenuBar, containing "JMenu"s and "JMenuItem"s.

You can see below what the application looks like, the big Grey area is the Processing Frame (using the code given in the PApplet doc).  


here is the code I use to embbed the applet :

Code:

mainPanel = new JPanel();
mainPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(mainPanel,BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));

appletView = new EmbeddedApplet();
appletView .setMinimumSize(new Dimension(640,480));
appletView .setMaximumSize(new Dimension(640,480));
appletView .setPreferredSize(new Dimension(640,480));
appletView .init();

mainPanel.add(artspaceView);
 

and my EmbeddedApplet class :

Code:

public class EmbeddedApplet extends PApplet {


public void setup() {
size(640, 480);
noLoop();
}


public void draw() {
// apply things in the command queue
}


public void mousePressed() {
// do something based on mouse movement
redraw();
}
} 

well instead of that i used a frame especially for the processing rendering, and another one for the rest of the GUi (kind of Gimp Like). But anyway the processing frame is just a part of the application i'm trying to do, so i can't put the menu directly inside processing.