How do you go about creating a JDialog with a JButton that, when
activated, closes (disposes) the JDialog?

Say I add a component to a JPanel first:
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
JTabbedPane tab1 = new JTabbedPane();
panel.add(tab1);

I'm trying to implement a "buddylist" for an instant-messaging client
I'm writing for school, and I've started by using a JList.  It seems
to work out great because I can use the custom-renderer to have icons
reflecting the status of the buddy.  But here's my problem -- is it

i want to the following:
i want to set a text on a jlabel and then
after 2 seconds I want to be able to set it to "";
however I want the other stuff to in the application to

My data model implements a sort algorithm. When clicking on a header of a
column an arrow indicating the sorting direction will be displayed and the
date in the table will be updated.
Although all data is inerted correctly in the correct order the headers

Hi every one,
I have a JFrame with a JPanel in it and all the components added to
the panel who's layout is set to "null" and the panel set to a
container,the frame contains a JMenu and a JDialog Box which contains

Hello to everybody,
Is there SWT and JFace tutorials ?
I found things on Eclipse Web site but nothing so complete than the tutorial
of Sun for Swing for example.

I would like to check the input in a JTextField. It should only be
possible to type in letters and numbers, but no special characters.
How do i have to implement that? First i tried with KeyListener, but
I didn't suceed.

is there a way to set the background color of a whole column?
Right now I use setBackground() in my cell renderer but this still leaves a
white 1 pixel line between each line of data in my table. I just cannot
figure out how to color this line too.

id appreciate any help on d following.
i want to have 2 radio buttons. each radio button has a corresponding
textfield
i.e

Is there a way to see the implementation
of a specific method in the jdk-package?
For instance if I wanted to know how a
paint method of a certain Swing component

I have two JButtons b1 and b2, and two JPanels p1 and p2 (although one
JPanel is displayed at a time).  How do I make it so that p1 is
displayed when I press b1 and p2 is displayed when b2 is pressed?

I would like to change the Look&Feel of the
menuitem selection. I know I can change the
backcolor via the following attribute..
MenuItem.selectionBackground

I am just about finished with my first java application, and am in the
process of testing the deployment on a windows box as well as a UNIX box. I
have research / have created an executable jar file and attempted to execute
it in a UNIX environment and got the error below..I created ...

Just wondering if this is possible, as im having no luck working it out, no
matter what ive tried so far..
I have 2 classes, lets call them gP and kP. in gP ive got this function:
   public void paint55(java.awt.Graphics graphics) {