I want to display text on the screen, I would normally use a JLabel but I
want this text to span over about 3 lines. I am trying to use a JTextArea
but I want the background to be transparent, like the JLabels. I can not
find anywhere in the API on how to do this. Any help or ...

Hello. :-)
I've got a problem: when I'm viewing a HTML document that
contains frames via a jEditorPane, the getCaretPosition method
always returns 0.  But if I view a HTML document that doesn't

 I have a swing application that has many frames and dialogs. Is it
possible to make a dialog modal for some frames and non-modal for the
others frames? (the frames are displayed at the same time).

I have a an applet (written by someone else) which I've been asked to work
on. They are using the HTMLEditorKit. Now they use InsertHTMLTextAction to
insert the HTML into the document. However I need to insert html where I do
not know what the HTML is prior to insertion. i.e. the ...

I figure the subject says it all really.  Has anybody got any ideas?
One more thing folks', is there a way to determine when the cursor
is over a frame's border?
Thanks y'all.

in the past sometime if i need to find good swing example,
i refer to tame examples  : http://www2.gol.com/users/tame/swing/examples
but now the user root response 404 :((
page not found

Let me first say that I am proficient in object-oriented programming,
but I do not know much about the way Java implements UI's in Windows.
I am creating a game where letters will be displayed on a grid and
rearranged by the player.  I can't use a table for this because the

I am collecting some info on building GUI for our new project. We need
to perform validations on some of the fields in the GUI screens(around
20 - 30 fields in each screen. After all the fields are validated they
need to be commited to the Oracle database.

We all see the soft colors on webpages now-a-days. Thats what I am
trying to do to for my JPanel's.
Consider the code
...

I have a table that I hide and show in my program.  When a value in one of the cells is changed - the table has no problems showing this new value, but when I want to parse the data in this table into usable form by grabbing what's in each cell, I get the old value for this ...

Is there a "clean" way to the focus not move from
(or perhaps move back to) a component that is
disabled then enabled?
Example: I have a panel with several buttons. The

I am trying to make a CellEditor based on a JSpinner for a JTable.
Unfortunately, I'm having some problems and haven't been able to find
answers in either Google searches (newsgroups and the web), the API, the
Java Tutorial, or by trial-and-error.

Is there a way to change the look and feel of just one component of my
gui ?
Especially I want some XP-Style-Buttons look like metal look and feel.
The rest should still have the xp/windows look and feel.

Hi I am using Windows 2K with JDK 1.4.2. My class extends from JFrame but
the statement:
 setsize(500, 300)
does not seem to have any effect. the following doesn't work either:

I wonder if somebody can help me. I would like to move the cursor from one
JTextField to another one when I press <CR>.
Regards,
fereshteh