jdk1.4.2/wink2k
i have just finshed working out how drag and drop works on jtable
what i would like to do is have the jtable that is a drop target highlight
the grid between two rows in bold as i drag the mouse over it

I wrote an application and part of the gui has a progress bar and some other
widgets which are suppose to get updated while the computer is processing
away. However the JPanel containing these components only appears after
processing finishes. Why is this?

Hi all.  I've searched high and low for a resolution to this problem,
but to no avail... thus I turn to you, gurus, for a helping
hand.........
    The application I'm writing is meant to retrieve data from a database

I'm constructing a BufferedImage out of a byte array.  Each pixel in
the array is 3 bytes long, ostensibly RGB but it's actually a
monochrome image so the three channels are always the same.  My BI
construction is:

Why is the JList in my application, started from netbeans scrollable
and if i start it from the shell it isn't??
Why will public void valueChanged(ListSelectionEvent listEvent) called
twice times if i click one listelement only with one click?

I'm creating my own custom UI for SWING.
Thus far I've had no problems, until I
wanted to change the margin of a JToolBar.
For some reasons this won't work.

I have an MDI app using JInternalFrame and JDesktopPane, and I'd like
to use ctl-tab/shift-ctl-tab (on Windows with Win l&f) to move between
the internal frames instead of the default ctl-f6. But I have been
unable to intercept the ctrl-tab which seems to have been snapped up

I'm making an applet which uses AWT. I'm using double buffering so
normal images won't flicker. I have made my own class ImageButton
which extends canvas. Every time ImageButton is drawn it flickers.
What i should do that my applet won't flicker?

I have a JPanel (let's call it rootPanel) with 2 Components added to
it.  One component is a JPanel (titlePanel) that acts as a titlebar.
The second is the "content pane" so to speak.
What I want to do is to detect when rootPanel has focus gained.  When

Java/Swing or C++/MFC on windows ?
Anything better ?

I have a JComboBox component in my JToolBar.  Normal behavior of the the
JComboBox is to display the item selected in the label/button area.
How do I prevent this behavior?
I'd like to keep the same text in the label area regardless of the

I have a swing program which has a dialog box with help button. I
believe that this dialog box is modal. When I press help button it
opens a popup window with help text. However this window doesn't
respond to any users input, it looks like it doesn't receive any

The approve button is always enabled when the JFileChooser is opened,
even if there is no default selected file (i.e. the selected file field
is empty). How could I disable the approve button until a selected file
is entered?

How to edit text on jpeg image?
The user can redit the text on image which he has inputed and save the  new
image as JPEG.
how can I do?

I'm using a DefaultCellEditor with a JTextField to capture a String
that is ultimately passed to setValueAt in my TableModel.  In that
method, I have logic which could throw an exception if the String's
contents proves to be invalid (i.e. one use is where the String is a