I have a problem with some code using a JSplitPane. The application works
fine under Java 1.3 but on changing to 1.4.2 _01-b06 my JBuilder X compiler
doesn't recognize the DIVIDER_LOCATION_PROPERTY bound property or the
setResizeWeight(double) method. Has there been a change with ...

I have completed the first draft of my
document advocatiing the SSCCE..
http://www.physci.org/codes/sscce.jsp
Comments?  Suggestions?  (Spelling corrections?...)

I would like to provide auto node expansion in tree, when a user drags
something. How can I figure out that a node selected as result of
drag&drop?

I know how to print JComponents (JTree, JTable) but on one page and the rest
of component is just cut off. How can I devide some component on four pages,
for example?
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I have a requirement to display multiple icons on a single JTree node.
Does anyone know if this capability is supported in the Swing JTree,
if it can be easily added to the Swing JTree or if there is a
commercial tree that supports this behavior?

I am developing an application that has three JWindows that must
always be displayed on the screen.  One displays radar data and is
permanently fixed in the background and covers the entire screen,
while the other two are task bar type windows located across the top

I am using three JLabel's on a row using the BorderLayout. The texts of the
JLabel's varies by size, which depends on user input. Unfortunaly, when the
JLabel in the center of the BorderLayout (BorderLayout.CENTER) gets too
large, it gets truncated and appended by three dots (...).

Hello; hope everyone had a good holiday season.
I am familiar with Swing threading issues except for this one point.
Suppose you have a class, A, that registers itself (or another tiny
class) as a PropertyChangeListener on another class, B.  Suppose that

I am trying to serially reuse a single instance of JfileChooser but
the second and subsequent uses of the instance continue returning the
selected item from the first use (via getSelectedFile() ).  I have
tried using setSelectedFile(null) to no avail.  Can anyone tell me how

I'm looking for a way to set the background pattern with an image (i.e.
loaded as a gif).
I'd like the background to be filled (and act as a pattern rather than a
background image) with a given gif, even after resizing.

Can i put a jpeg as a background for a panel or frame in swing?? if so what
should I be aware of?
Could I make it the background of my frame and set the panel to opaque?
would this effect and animation?

I want to draw a directed, possibly cyclic graph in some GUI. What would
probably be the best approach to that? What classes and what methods in
the JDK do I have to look for? I probably have to override some paint
method, but I'm not sure what to subclass etc. I have never done

I wanted to program a little Browser. For viewing the HTML, I would use
a JEditorPane. That component has got a method setPage(URL), but I don't
want to use it because it doesn't work with all sites in the WWW (even
the java.sun.com page isn't displayed). So I wanted to load the ...

I'm a Java newbie , and we got an assignment in school to program an
economic graph. The result is a circle devided in a variable number of
segments (standard : 12).
Everything is finished, the only problem is that I need to draw strings

I'm using a 3x2 grid layout in a JPanel.  The left column are labels
and the right columns are JTextFields.  These text fields contain
values that are only a few chars long (numbers generally).  My problem
is that the text fields are filling up the whole block on the grid but