Does anybody know if there are problems with the positioning of the
caret in JFormattedTextFields. I posted about this earlier but got no
response. Basically I find that when a NumberFormatter and a Qty
Verifier are associated with the field the caret is positioned on the

I have a JPanel that contains a list of JPanels, whose width are different.
How can I tell SpringLayout that I would like to set the EAST edge of the
container JPanel to be right of the rightmost EAST edge of the internal
JPanels?

I have a custom cell renderer for JTable, and this cell renderer is also a
listener for some event. The cell renderer receives new value as events,
since it is a listener. The cell renderer must upadte this value as a table
cell. Simple call this.setText does not work, as it must ...

I have to create a software that will be use to pilot a robot. A GUI
will be used to drive the robot. And to give that robot the direction to
move, i would like to use graphical component that looks like a compass.
Should someone knows where i could find that kind of component i ...

I have some UIs in my application. Today I was upgrading the code from
JDK1.3.1 to JDK1.4.2 WindowsXP.
Some How the UI hangs and painting does not happen properly. Does any
body have any solution

Mention on the swing.properties in JDK standard javadoc is quite
sporadic. We can't grasp what entries and what values are available
in their full list. So, it's worse than UIDefaults for Swing programmers.
In the source of metal.DefaultTheme, we can find some. But small number

[reposted here - earlier incorrectly posted to comp.lang.java.help]
Anyone know a way of allowing a JPanel to be zoomable not only in terms of
how it draws itself, but also so any JComponents within the (zoomed) panel
behave correctly?  

I have a problem that concerns switching from
my custom Look and Feel to the Metal LnF.
When doing this the Metal LnF does not look
the way it is supposed to (wrong colours etc).

I have a question about using setScale to scale a Graphics2D context.  I was
designing an icon editor and I wanted to show a blown up verion of the icon
with grid and all, so I used setScale(), which works, except that when I
draw lines or circles or ovals, any sort of shape that ...

Hi I started to learn java. What is the best IDE for java. (The freeware)
Thank's

I'm a new user of javax.swing, so my problem might be trivial.
The problem is that upon starting my program, it gives a very small window,
giving only a cca. 15 character wide window header. Of course I can resize
my window, but that's not what I want.

I have a working code that captures mouse events in a JPanel. I need
clicked, released, and dragged events. The code works like a charm on
Linux. Occasionally in Windows I'm getting both dragged and clicked
events for a single mouse action. When I press and release the mouse

I've just been playing around with positioning a Swing form on a
screen.
I've discovered that if I call the getPreferredSize method within my
constructor I am getting smaller numbers in my Dimension than if I

Any help/advice that would help us create a GUI Wizard framework would be
appreciated. We found this on SourceForge, but it doesn't seem to have been
updated in awhile:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gandalf/

I have to design a small game which features a grid of clickable squares. I
have already written most of the code and I just need to implement this in a
GUI.
- What is the best object to use which would allow the visible content of a