I'm writting an application. Currently there are 3 basic components layed
out using a BorderLayout. There are 2 JPanels with components on placed in
the WEST and CENTER, and there is a JLabel in the SOUTH.
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I wonder is there any way to display multiple custom (loaded from ttf file)
fonts in JtextPane (or any other controll) without using graphic.
I would appreciate any idea !
regards,

Is there a way to make a column in a JTable invisible?
When I set all sizes to 0, the user can resize the hidden column by
mouse dragging:
 getColumnModel().getColumn(1).setMaxWidth(0);

I have a Java application with several classes that extend JPanels and
that, till now, didn't have any internal Swing components. They did
display text that was antialiased and sometimes animated by overriding
paintComponent in each of these custom classes. And this worked fine.

       Can anyone suggest books that focus on writing totally customized
swing components? To be more specific, the book would discuss  basicUI and
defaultModel for each of the JComponents.
Thanks.

I've got two dynamic JLists (they change at run time based on user input)
constructed from a DefaultTableModel, like so:
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filesToWatch = new DefaultListModel();

I've just begun using FormLayout (migrating from TableLayout), and
it's great. But all the examples I've seen use hardcoded strings to
describe the layout; for example,
   FormLayout layout = new FormLayout

How can I create standard icon - the same which is in the dialog below?
//custom title, warning icon
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(frame,
   "Eggs aren't supposed to be green.",

I just want to select all in a JList, how can i do that please ? Not
with <ctrl+A> but with a button.
thanks a lot
Patrice

I'm an old delphi guy, so I love RAD-based development.  Howver, I've gotten
well acquainted with java-based backends especially JDBC-based frameworks.
However, I'm still stumbling about trying to find a good way to attach my
backend objects to a reasonable gui w/o resorting to ...

Hello everybody;
Is there a way to access screen fonts (Fixedsys, Courier, Terminal ...)
on a windows machine using java swing. I tried the following. . .
GriphicsEnvironment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames()

Does anyone know how to store objects in a name value pair data structure
(i.e. hashmap) in a JTable? It easy to store the name of the object but to
store the object with the name, I am not sure.
Any help would be great

I was after suggestions for a GUI problem I keep on encountering.
I am working on a Swing app. that was designed all single threaded.
I've identified certain opertaions that take a long time to execute
and have them now running in sep. threads with the use of SwingWorker.

i face the following error..
i have a JTextPanel and a thread that checks every 1sec if there is data
in an imputstream and write them to the text panel.. i have also a
button with which i want to "pause" the thread...

I am writing an intepreter for a mathematical language. The lexer of
the interpreter reads its input from InputStreamReader and therefore,
can be connected to the system console. But I want to provide a GUI
console for the interpreter that can be invoked from within the GUI