When I click on JTable cell, the row is selected (highligted) and the
particular cell (which is cliked) is shown with yellow border. However, I
have one editable column (of checkboxes), which does not show this
behaviour. How do I get it to show the yellow border when this cell is

Here's another question about Swing and threads.
I have a worker class that performs some heavy computations.
This class can be called by two different applications: a command line
app and a Swing GUI.

Anyone know a way of querying the AWT event queue to find out how many
pending events are present?  I have a problem in AWT where I want to
prevent the event queue from being overloaded with too many key
events.

How is event handling done with JTextField?
I want to check whether a JTextField component has text in it or not.
It has the ActionEvent but it cannot do that.
AWT has this TextEvent but it cannot be used in Swing (I guess).

I have a JDialog with a JList on it wherin if something is selected in the
JList, and a JButton ("Add") is clicked, it inserts the String selected in
the JList into a JTextPane residing in a componenent which invoked my
JDialog. All works fine. However, after inserting the text into ...

Does any expert out there know how to create a HTML link or Hyperlinnk in a
Java Panel (ie, JPanel and etc.)?
Given that, an user is able to click on the HTML link on the panel and the
webpage will be launched on the system default browser (ie, IE).

I am a Java newbie.
Can anyone tell me how to create a combo dialogbox  ( edit box with a
button, when u click the button, a separate dialog window pops up, return
with value on close dialog window.. not combo list box)  in JTable column.

I am currently trying to debug an existing swing application. What I am
basically looking for is some sort of tool or method to find out, how
panels are stacked.
For example I have a JFrame that is filled with a large number of

I've switched to Windows L&F, and that looks cool except for the fact that
the height of the column header should be a bit larger after my taste. Do
you know how to set this ?
Also, I'm sorry that the background of the JTable/Scrollpane depends on the

I'm having trouble using KeyListeners in 1.4.2. I'm writing a graphics
application, and I'd like to change the behavior of some of the tools when
modifier keys are held down. The problem is that I use a JToolBar, which
seems to have grabbed hold of the focus and won't let go. The ...

I've got a component which I need to print.
However, when printing occurs, I actually create a copy of the
component and manipulate it a bit via its API. When it is ready, I
need to print it.

I just want to know what is the difference between JasperReports, Itext and
FOP ?
Which one is the better for an order's generation ? and why ?
thx a lot

I have a requirement to "capture" the mouse cursor in certain components
within my Swing GUI.  For example, when a popup is displayed, the mouse
cursor cannot move outside the popup unless the popup action sequence is
cancelled by a right mouse button click.

Hy all,
   I apologize for my bad english. I'm studing swing GUI and I have a
problem with iconify. I have a panel with a group of label that after
deiconified change position. I tried with repaint to hold the right order

 I'm trying to include a button on a tabbed page that will enable you to
switch to
 another page.
 I'm using the following code: