Resizing a window (with solid resize ON) in winNT doesn't update correctly, i.e., 
it recalculates the layout only when the drag is finished.


To set the solid resize, try Display Properties (Right click on the WinNT 4.0 desktop), on the
"Plus!" tab there is an option called "Show window contents while
dragging". Check it, then click OK or Apply. After that, the Move/Resize
of any window is solid, and the problem I described appears (compare it
with other applications, such as navigator).



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Workaround:
I don't know of any workaround one can do in the AWT/Swing
application.

  Fixing the JDK:
I have located the reason to the incorrect behaviour in the source
code for JDK 1.3.
File: src\win32\native\sun\windows\awt_Window.cpp
Line: 480
Function: AwtWindow::WmSize()
The code on this line uses a flag (m_resizing) to always avoid
sending size updates during a resize. The correct behavior would
be to let the resize updates through when "show window contents
while dragging" is active.
Probably you can always let the size updates through, because
Win32 will itself filter out the size updates when the mentioned
display property is disabled.
(Review ID: 103175)
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We intend to do this for Merlin.  
  xxxxx@xxxxx   1999-12-31

Several new methods have been added to Toolkit.java to allow user control 
of this behavior where the underlying platform supports it.  The Javadoc 
comments for Toolkit.isDynamicLayoutActive, Toolkit.setDynamicLayout, etc. 
document the usage and behavior.  

Note: the code and diagnosis in the workaround section is not correct.  

  xxxxx@xxxxx   2000-11-29

There is a separate, but related problem here.  Not only 
does the layout not update while resizing, but the layout 
also flickers while resizing.  

With a lot of experimentation, I was able to discover that 
the flickering only occurs when BOTH height and width 
increase.  If you only increase the width, or only increase 
the height, double buffering appears to work correctly.

Will this be taken care of as well?

Dynamic layout should be the default behavior on windows if this is how windows is set up. This really needs to be addressed.