Is it possible to put an addActionListener to a menu or does this only work
with MenuItems?
I have made a menubar with 3 menu's, but only  in the first menu I have some
MenuItems, and these work.  The other 2 menu's don't work.

I've got 2 questions.
1. Can I put components line by line in a window?
FlowLayout doesn't work for me, because it put everything in a line if
it could. I want to specify exactly when I need a put a new thing in a

Hi there, im after a jCombo box, so when a user chooses something from the
option it then knows it, and can load certain code depending on it.
i.e, In the jComboBox i will have:
North

Ok...
So I wanted to implement a "server-side" file system browser.
I extended java.io.File, and javax.swing.filechooser.FileSystemView,
and minor tweaking in the JFileChooser.

I show my graphics in a JPanel, something like a print preview, which I will
print.
1. How can I zoom my graphics? On a screen and also on a printer.
2. can I do something with the Graphics.scale() or I must resize the font,

Does anybody know how to program a multi-documented interface
such that the JInternalFrames are automatically brought in to
focus when the mouse cursor passes over them?
I presume some kind of windowListener is required, but was wondering if

I have built an applet that contains a JTable that is filled with data
coming from an applet through Serialization. The applet does what it's
suppose to do, but when I leave the browser open for a long period of
time, the applet disappears and it becomes a huge hole in my browser

I would like to create a no rectangular dialog using java, I'd like assign
an image as skin with transparent zones to any dialog. Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance,
Gianfranco

I use fireTableDataChanged to notify my Jtable to update, but when my JTable
updated, the previous selected rows (could be multiple) are lost ...
I want to know how to do to keep these selections when refreshing JTable by
this way ?

Hello, I've created a table with scrollpane but can't get the column header
to hide using JDK 1.3.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
JTable table = new JTable( tableModel );

I have a JFrame object. How can I stop user from moving and resizing
the window?
In Win32 API I would just need to capture WM_MOVE and WM_SIZE
messages. How can I do similar thing in Swing?

I have a JTextArea in which I'd like to display different lines of text in a
variety of colors. That is, one line of text may be red, while the next is
blue, and so on.  There has *got* to be an easy way to do this, but after
searching the docs, as well as various forums and faqs, I ...

Having trouble disabling the "feature" of movement/repositioning Columns in
a JTable.  I can find the method to stop "resizing" the Column width, but I
also would like the Columns to stay in a stationary position and not be
abled to be repositioned within in the JTable.  Using JDK 1 ...

Apologies if this comes off wierd, I'm having a hard time putting
together the question I want to ask.
Generally when I'm coding a GUI, I do it the way I was taught in
college for OO design, where I break the GUI into chunks of associated

I'd like to create a custom JTextField that
always has a certain character, say a percent
sign, at the end of it.  (Yes, I realize that
I could just add a JLabel with a "%" after the