Button names in a toolbar (as well as text in jTextArea) diappear!

From: Kamran Karimi (karimi_at_cs.uregina.ca)
Date: 12/17/03 

Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:00:19 -0600

Hi every body,

 I am wtiring a program with a toolbar. Everything functions well when I
run it under Windows 98, Java interpreter 1.3.1, but when I run it under
UNIX (IRIX) with Java interpreter 1.4.1, the names of all the buttons in
the toolbar disappear! The buttons that have an icon are alright,
though.

In a probably related problem, text appears normally in a jTextArea
object under Windows, but nothing shows under IRIX. Apparently text does
get appended, because after a while I see a vertical scroll bar
appearing, but there is nothing to be seen.

With both problems I have tried changing the text or background colours,
but with no luck. What could be the problem? Any help is appreciated.

-Kamran