I'm in the process of making my own ListModel by extending
AbstractListModel. That's not difficult. But i'm having problems with
my infrastructure, my new created Model tend to be more like a
Controller. For example:

I would like to enable users of my application to drag to select a
rectangular region of a component, and then copy an image of that
region to the system clipboard. The clipboard stuff seems to work fine
(on osx at least), despite the troubles I'd anticipated from browsing

Here is my problem: I currently have a JTable containing anywhere from
5,000 to well over 200,000 rows. You see where I'm going with this.
The data is already loaded into memory, which isn't a problem, but how
can I create an efficient JTable so that it only loads the rows that

I try recently the graphic SWT / JFace library.
I use the JFace TreeViewer as it is described in this IBM's article:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecgui1/
I have two problems :

I have a JDesktopPane that contains a series of JInternalFrames. These
frames contain various tables of data. I wish to allow the user to
validate the data in a table before they save it to file. I am
currently placing the results of the validation in another frame and

I'm interested in finding out how to write better event-driven
programs using Java (mainly); are there any good resources on the web
that would cover this (including the sorts of design patterns that
would apply)?

I have two JLabels, one JTextField and one JTextArea.
I want the JLabels and the JTextField to be limited to one line in
depth, but the JText Area to expand the rest of the space.
How would i go about this?

   I've got a Swing gui, and there's a JPanel in there. I want to be able
to have a number of JFrames, and be able to replace one with another, so
that an initial set of buttons in a JFrame can be replaced with another set.
I hope that makes sense. I know about TabbedPane but I ...

I have a jtable which I added a ListSelectionListener.  Now when I edit a
cell and then retrieve the value it is null.  I have to select a different
cell then back to the one I edited and then the value from the cell is
returned.

Anyone can tell me how to extract the icon from exe file and make use as
ImageIcon in java?
ImageIcon ii=(ImageIcon)fsv.getSystemIcon(new File("abc.exe"));
I had try this code before, but the icon that get out is very bad.(big

   I'm trying to display a dynamic graph in JInternalFrame. I could get it
to work in JFrame, but after i but it in JInternalFrame, after i click a
button to open the frame in JDesktopPane, it freezes. Do you have any ideas
why?????

I've put a JList in a JScrollPane:
    addLinks1List = new JList();
    addLinks1Pane = new JScrollPane();
        addLinks1Pane.setViewportView(addLinks1List);

this is someone elses post - but I'm having the same problem with my GUI  and can't figure it out. No body responded to his post so I'll try again, please help!:
I've put a JList in a JScrollPane:
    addLinks1List = new JList();
    addLinks1Pane = new JScrollPane();

Anyone know a library or a project implementing Gui component without
AWT or Swing.
I need simply an input field with a frame on an AIX server with JDK
1.3.1 and without X11.

I've installed the Java Runtime Environment (JRE™) version 1.4.2_03,
including the Java Plug-in component for running Java applets, but
after I access a web site that utilizes/requires JAVA, the icon images
(e.g. - the Start button; the 3 upper right buttons in any window