I am trying to put a functionality into a JTable which is like this:
There should be a small down arrow to the right of the table. Upon
clicking this arrow, a drop down menu will be displayed which will
contain the columns of this table. I should be able to select

I'm new to Java (... day 2 now ...). My question is: how do I close a frame?
I derived my frame to make a sort of a password dialog (just an excercise).
I want to "close" the dialog when a user clicks on the cancel button (a
button I created).

Is there a way to detect the Windows context menu key to trigger a
JPopupMenu?
I often work without a mouse (on a laptop) and am used to working with the
context menu key. It would be great if my Swing GUIS would handle this the

Clicking my JButton sets focus on the button but does not trigger the
actionPerformed of my ActionListener. Only once the button has focus,
clicking it triggers the actionPerformed method.
The ActionListener is added to the button at the time the button is

can someone show me how to place JCheckBox and JComboBox objects into a
table using a default table model.

Does anyone have - or know a location of example code - showing simple
JTable sort on column? i.e. where the user can click on the tope cell of any
column, and the table is sorted in order based on that column? Thanks, Ike

   Which book would you recommend for someone who wants to know more about
swing. Should I go with SUN's "The JFC Swing Tutorial: A Guide to
Constructing GUIs", or something else.
   What would you recommend.

How to draw complex header in JTable like this
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I hope this is the correct newsgroup for my question (if not which
groups is the correct one?):
I made a java program using the j2sdk_1.4.1_03 and tested it on
different computers running different OS using the j2re_1.4.1_03.

I am having a problem with expanding a path under a JTree.  I have a
DefaultMutableTreeNode which I add new nodes to, then try to expand,
however calling expandPath or expandRow sporadically causes the whole
application to hang.

i have the following problem:
I have a background image set in the main panel of my program.
I set all overlying components to opaque = false.
this works fine for the panels but the JCombobox and the JTextPanels are

I have an applet in a frame. The problem I am having is if I
dont fix the width and height of the applet as 100 %, the applet
is having serious repainting problem. If I dont fix the width and
height to 100 %, and if the applet is containing components more than

I'm new to the java swing interface and was wondering how I could program a
checkbox that would not accept user mouse clicks, but could still be enabled
(I don't want the button disabled).  I only want the program to be able to
check and uncheck the box NOT the user.  The checkbox's ...

Okay, I've got a nifty JToolBar all decked out with JButtons, and have
added it to my app so that the user can let it float or move it from
BorderLayout.NORTH to SOUTH, WEST, or EAST if they'd like.
What I'd like to do is capture where the user last left the JToolBar

I have a GUI made in Java swing with using version 1.4.2
When I compile and run my GUI on linux the appearance is
okay in linux but not on solaris and vice versa.
I have a JPanel for which I have "null" layout I put some