First of all I would like to introduce myself. I'm not a professional
programer. I'm a medical doctor trying to make a swing ICD10 Code
Selection Tool (ICD10=International Classification of Diseases 10 -
W.H.O.). The whole ICD10 codes are in a HSQLDB database. No problem so
far. The Browser is based on a JDialog and is up and running. But I have
some esthetic problems I didn't make to solve so far, though I tried hard...

1) For every component I add to my JDialog, there is the following code
(for example with a JLabel status line)...

JLabel status=(new JLabel("Item not selected yet.") {
    public void paint(Graphics g) {
        ((Graphics2D)g).setRenderingHint(
            RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING,
            RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON);
        super.paint(g);
    }
});

... in order to make the component have antialiased text in it.
Can this be done by default for the whole application? I tried to have
the same code in a JDialog derived class paint method, but didn't worked.

2) For every component that displays text I hava a line like this (the
same status component)...

status.setFont(new Font(null,Font.PLAIN,dpi));
/* ...where dpi is... */
int dpi = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenResolution()/8;

...and all this trouble because my screen resolution is 1600x1200 with
120dpi, and all fonts are too small. If I make them larger they will be
too large in a 1024x768 display. In my 120dpi screen the above method
gives 15 point fonts, while in a 96dpi screen gives 12point fonts.
Again, I wonder if this is the appropriate thing to do or there is
another more widely accepted method?

3) And the most annoying thing is with a JComboBox which is not editable
(it has a button in place of the editor part). I want the text on this
button to act like JLabel conserning wraping (I don't want to wrap text
to multiple lines). Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.