I am able to display the body part of an email message in a JEditorPane but
it isn't very good. Does anyone know of a better way or know of some
third-party component I can get hold of?
Thanks.

I have a win2k PC that just won't load any java gui.  I have many other
PC's that will run he same .jar files with the same jre
The jre that I am using is Sun Java 2 jre SE 1.4.2.
I have:

Good evening!
In my JApplet init() method  I add a few Swing components (JButton's) to the
contentPane. I want the components to appear on top of an image background,
so I added paint() and proceed to use drawImage(). Alias! The JButtons never

I would like to highlight a node on the JTree when a user has selected
something from another component, say, JList.
How do I go about doing that?

FlowLayout CENTERS components with different heights vertically in a row. I
need them top aligned and tried
component.setAlignmentY(Component.TOP_ALIGNMENT), however, this only works
in BoxLayout. Is this a Swing flaw? (Note I don't mean the FlowLayouts

I've been coding up some screens and dialogs and im totally unsure how I am supposed to be
validating user input. For instance if I have a dialog box with 3 JFormattedTextFields and an OK and
Cancel button am I supposed to check the data when the OK button is pressed or when each ...

I am using a jtabbed pane, and would like to somehow make a tab flash, if it
is not the selected tab, when some new data occurs in it, and have it flash
until the user selects it.
Anyone have an idea - or example - of how this might be acheived? Thanks Ike

Why is a JPanel component within a JFrame not receiving key events ?. I have
a JPanel component on my JFrame component. Installed the KeyListener for
that JPanel but when I press a key on the JPanel component I not see the
events, how is possible ?

I'd like to display a running log of network statisics, like bytes
received, running Bps, etc.  But it really could be any kind of data.
It needs to scroll upwards based on each event recieved; but I would
like each piece of data to have a separate column.  What the quikest,

Does anybody knows an applet which offers word processing?
thx 4 anserws
Marco

I'm trying to create a simple window with a red rectangle drawn inside it. I
can do this but as soon as I move another window (e.g OS prompt window) over
the rectangle, it kind of rubs out the rectangle like an eraser tool would
do in a painting package. I'm sure I'm missing ...

Good evening,
  Why doesn't the following code work (no image displayed)?
BoderLayout.CENTER or BoxLayout works fine!
import java.awt.*;

are there any free java IDE's out there..i've downloaded the sdk as i need
to construct a GUI interface...maybe there are some IDE's out there that
provide drag and drop component functionality? (ie drop button on form
etc?)  I'm currently using the XEmacs editor to code...it has a ...

I've got a DNA sequence (only containing the letters A,T,G and C) and
stored in an array of bytes. I whish I could manipulate it via a
JTextArea without having to dupicate it into a String as it could be a
very long sequence. Is there a way to use a JTextArea with such an

Is there a way to remove old version of java? I have several Win XP
computers where I've installed the latest version, and in the control
panel, there are 2 or even 3 version now listed. But none of them show
up on the Add/Remove Hardware list.