Ok, now this works fine, thanks very much. I was creating my thread
wrong. Funny is taht it was based on an example from a book:) It
should be as you said.
(new Thread(this)).start();

I'm not quite sure how to get the effect I'm looking for with Swing.
I want to display a list of comments in their entirety in a scroll
pane.
Each comment is a panel with a text area and a couple of labels (date

I have a case where I'll need distinct and printable names to use in a
reference table.  I'd like to make it so each object, whether it's of the
same class as any other object or not, can produce a distinct number.  It
looks like if I get the hashcode for any object, the JVM ...

i am trying to make a graphic similar to following link in Java.. or
flash player
http://media.pearsoncmg.com/bc/aw_young_physics_11/pt1a/Media/WorkEnergy/SpringL
aunchedBowler/Main.html
or

If I am not at the correct plcae, please alert...
Suppose I have a string with x place holders (P1, P2, P3,...Px).
And I have x arrays of variable length which includes a list of
optional values for each Pi.

I can do this with my own sort, but before I do that, I'd like to know if
there is a built in way to do this or a standard method.
I will be taking a set of values for a String[] variable from a data table.
I need to keep the association of each member of the String[] in place so I

give me info on methods of StreamTokenizer class

Hi, in this regex I have two different results but why?
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[a-z&&[def]]");
Matcher m = p.matcher("adef");
boolean b = m.find(); // true

I have two text files, text1.xml and text2.xml. text1.xml is the bench
mark file and text2.xml is generated by my Java program. In my junit
test, I want to compare the generated text2.xml against the bench mark
file text1.xml. The bench mark file text1.xml is much bigger than

I need notes or information about java

Does Java natively support html tags in text fields, or does the programmer
have to specify a string type in order for html tags to be treated as tags
rather than text?  I ask this because I support an application at work that
allows me to enter text fields that will appear as ...

I need advanced java books pleas  send

how to change a Swing app to a JApplet?
what should I change in codes?
in my swing app my entrance is like:
    public static void main(String[] args) {

I am hoping someone will be able to recommend a book to me. I have
been programming in Java for about a year now so I have a reasonable
knowledge of the basics. I use it for making command line programs
which are generally reasonably computationally intensive. However, I

Re: How to inform web site visitor that Sun Java is required?
Hi,
I hope this is the correct forum to make this post. If not, please let
me know.