How can i put empty space between the border of my JFrame and the objects i
put on the screen? I'm using a GridLayout with 3 rows and 1 column, the
problem is that my screen i completly filled with the elements; How can i
tell the GridLayout or the frame that i need an empty space ...

GridBagLayout - strange resize behaviour
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Hi there,
I have done a Swing application using GridBagLayout - looks good,

I'm just wondering how I can create a "default" button click when hitting the
Return/Enter key. In VB, this is simply a matter of assigning a specific propery
to the default button to be pressed, but I am at a loss for how to do it in Java
without using an ActionListener. Is ...

When we want to keep the initial background color of a panel for a
plotting application, we do simply the following for java.awt.Panel:
<code>
public class PlotPanel extends Panel{

I have impletemed a JFrame Swing application.
When I press ctrl+alt+del in Windows 2K the panel goes blank.
Any ideas on how I can catch this and send a repaint to the frame?
I also have the same problem when comming back from the password

I have a situation where I want to be able to drag a component (or an image
of one) from one container to another. Using the excellent beginner article
at
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/dragndrop/

I have a treetable and have to display some status indicators for
objects in the treetable. The chosen way of doing this (not entirely
my choice) is to overlay the tree icons with small images representing
these states. Increasing the gap between icon and text and drawing in

is there an easy way to save ( and get) the contents of a jtable to
(from) html-tables or ascii?
Thanks
Greetings Mark

My application sends data to the gui frequently, but not constantly.  So
far, my implemenation of wait/notify on a linked list of arriving data has
worked fine.  Now I need to update a JTable based on incoming data.  I'd
like the JTable cell values to change based on incoming data.  ...

i have a problem with using pictures in my app.
i  would like to use a jfilechooser to choose picture file that i would like
to show in app. I managed to get a full path and picture name, but i dont
know how to use it to put that picture on screen(not in separate window, but

public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e){
  if (e.getSource() instanceof JLabel){
    JLabel labelFor = ((JLabel)e.getSource());
    if ( labelFor.getLabelFor() instanceof JTextField

Hi All, I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and I am trying to install the java swing
packages, etc. I downloaded the j2re-1_4_2_01-Linux-i586.rpm.bin and I
installed and everything seems ok, but i can't seem to use those packages,
(if in fact they are the right ones) I haven't been able to ...

i don't manage to set a jCheckBox in a jTable...
Can anyone tell me what's wrong with my code.
Thanks
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I've long been maintaining an application that positions many JRadioButtons
inside JFrames having GridLayouts.  For an application built with SDK 1.3, the
positioning of the buttons has always been consistent with JRE 1.2 and 1.3.
However I've found that the same application ...

While selecting the last row of my table works fine (view jumps to the
end of the table), selecting the first row doesn't (only row is selected
without scrolling). Here's the code:
public void setSelectionIndex(int ix){