I have an applet which I want to run under various VM's, including the
Microsoft VM that (used to) be part of Internet Explorer.
When I create a font for a component, as so:
   setFont (new Font ("DIALOG", Font.PLAIN, 20));

Hello ng,
if I initialize a component (the component is not yet visible), how
could I notify an item listener that the item has changed? I tried to
call setSelectedItem (with a combobox) but the listener does not react.

Most windows users are used to cancel a dialog by pressing the Escape key,
but assigning this key as a mnemonic to the cancel button seem to have no
effect.
Can you assist ??

can anyone explain to me how a renderer, e.g. a TreeCellRenderer, is
working, i.e. is called.
I think it is called by the Components paint or paintComponent method,
every time with the row specific parameters. Is this right?

I have a problem grabbing the focus in an internal frame.
We have made a desktop that uses JInternalFrames. Everytime a frame is
opened it is done by calling JComponent.setVisible() since all frames
are initialized on startup.

I'm Alessandro. I have the following problem:
I have transformed my java application in a jar file because I use Java Web
Start (Jaws) to download and execute application from a remote host. I
signed the jar to obtain any rights.

I have a JLabel and a JButton in a JPanel with GridBagLayout that I'd like
to hide/appear when the user clicks a button. The problem i'm finding is
that if I use remove() the row which these comps are in seems to disappear
so that when i call add() it puts them in the the last ...

Is it possible to limit the number of items the user can select in a multi
selectable JList?

Does Anyone know if there are any java apps/lets out there that permit
you to run a online schedule management systems..
I've consideration using javascpript for my business, but it juuuust
seems too clunky..

I have two classes, one of which (the LineDrawer class) draws lines on the
JPanel of the other (the DrawingBoard class). The JPanel is passed into the
LineDrawer class via the constructor and to it are added mouse listeners.
Now, at various mouse clicks and drags, the LineDrawer ...

I have two classes, one of which (the LineDrawer class) draws lines on the
JPanel of the other (the DrawingBoard class). The JPanel is passed into the
LineDrawer class via the constructor and to it are added mouse listeners.
Now, at various mouse clicks and drags, the LineDrawer ...

invokeAndWait(Runnable doRun)
Causes doRun.run() to be executed synchronously on the AWT event
dispatching thread.
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I have a problem. I want to a certain field to get the focus when an jdialog
opens. I use the requestFocus in the JDialog constructor but this seem have
no effect.
In Windows one would have to post a message to the messagequeue, but I dont

I have a custom component that extended JTextArea but I changed that to
JEditorPane to add syntax highlighting but now the undo and redo operations
do not work anymore.
this is the code:

I cant figure out how to set a mnemonic to a textfield. Not only should it
activate the field, bit it should also underline the character in the label
assigned to the field.
Can you assist ??