I have some buttons in a dialog. I would like if they behaved as the buttons
in a toolbar, so only the icon is showed but if the mouse is located in the
button area, the frame is showed as well.
Best regards

Folks,
I am looking for a clas framework that will allow me to easily build wizards
using Swing.
Any recommendations?

I have a problem with scrolling. I have a JScrollPane with a JTextPane
inside it. Adding text to the textpane is done through a StyledDocument.
There are two functions adding text to the doc (with two different styles).
The problem is that I want the scrollpane to automatically ...

I am probably just misunderstanding something but I cannot get this to work.
Basically I am trying to display an animated graphic of a clock while my
program completes initialization.  That is I try to make the application
window visible as soon as possible so the user knows that ...

I have one problem:
I have an Java-Applet on an homepage that displays some text and numbers but
has no button to save the displayed information.
How can I save the displayed Information in an textfile (NOT a screenshot) ?

Now I've tried for a few days to make an interface which takes the
text of a button and adds it to a JLabel. It is also partly succeed -
When I println the information to the prompt about the JLabel after
pressing a button it shows me the right updated JLabel text, but in

Hi, all.
What's the easiest way to override a "heavyweight"
dialog's system menu icon, so I can show an icon
of choice, rather than the default one (Sun's Java)?

I've got a JFormattedTextfield which I've set a formatter, enter key
listener and InputVerifier on and it all works fine when the user
enters data and pressed enter or tabs out of the field. The checks are
made fine. However if the program itself calls setValue() or setText()

How would I go about programatically finding all the JTextFields in a
Frame (in all the contained panels and so on) so that I can set the
enabled state. This would be usefull as it means that I don't need to
keep adding extra enabled code when other people add extra fields to a

The application I'm developing has a JMenu, like any other Swing app
out there. The menuitems in that JMenu are enabled/disabled according
to the state of the app. I'd like to know which is the best way to
enable or disable the individual JMenuItems from any point in the

Hey all,
I'm having a problem with the layout management of a JPanel. The panel
is not extending the full width horizontally of the tabbedpane in
which it is placed and all the controls are all bunched up together

i've got an panel with an information section on the left side. This
section is realized as a panel with boxlayout. This panel contains a
text compnonent where i want to put some informations in. The problem
is, that the informations strings have different length so the size of

I want an Action to have 2 KeyBindings.
First the minus sign from the KeyPad,
second the minus sign from the NumPad.
public class MyAction extends AbstractAction {

I need to display tooltips for my Jtable header. hence I subclassed
JTableHeader as follows -
protected class TooltipHeader extends JTableHeader{
public String getToolTipText(MouseEvent e){

Is there any way I can use the Graphics2D under the microsoft virtual
machine? I have written a lot of Graphics2D which I can not really tak out
my program (I am using the rotoate method). Is there any way I can convert
the code to Visual J+ or Visual J#.net? Would that work?