java paint problem - black components

Question

I am having a weird java problem - For some reason quite often when I open a dialog it becomes black. When I force a repaint (for example, draging it out and into the screen

Answer 1

After a recent ati driver update I got the black control problem (and it's 2013 to my greatest astonishment); what helped me was disabling 2d/d3d acceleration:

java -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false -jar whatever.jar