I am writing some of my own visual components.
I have two question regarding this issue.
First is, if it's proper way, that I extend JComponent ?
The second is, what percausins should I take, so the Container can

I am developing an application that will reconcile legacy system generated
transactions to the actual bank statements.  Sort of like MS Money on
steriods (in that the transactions may be many to many when matching).
I am thinking about the approach to take with the UI and the ...

Hello, I want to display large amount of text in a swing Textcomponent.
I do not want to edit it, it just has to be a plain JTextArea. Of course it
is not a good idea or impossible to load 1 MB text at once into a JTextArea.
I probally have to load and unload chunks dynamically ...

I have JTree, each node contains JCheckBox and JLabel,
of course I've created class that implements TreeCellRenderer.
I store my data in class that implements TreeModel.
How can I check which component was clicked by user?

I need an applet loads and displays an image which is stored on server
side.
My applet works fine if I open the html file in my browser by "Open
File", but it doesn't load the image if my browser accesses it by URL

Is there any pattern which allows to implement the Cancel
functionality from the GUI. Basically a user can press the Cancel
button anytime and a long processing job should immediately do the
required cleanup and finish. How to do it?

I am using a JFileChooser in my application
to set the location where e certain file should
be saved.
Therefor I have set it to display directories only.

I have a JTable that changes from one cell to another cell in the same line
when pressing the Tab key.
I would like my JTable to behave in a M$ Windows manner, so the Tab key
switches focus to next control in the parent dialog.

I'm currently loading TrueType fonts from the server and using them
directly in my application with the Font.createFont(InputStream) method.
This method does only support TrueType fonts.
I need to switch to OpenType, so I was wondering if anyone know about

I need to make some charts to make reports in my java web app.  Would
anybody please tell if there are any open source java util to do that
Thanks in advance!
Billy

Is there a way to place a horizontal separator line between menubar
and toolbar?
Thanks
Paul

in the below short write
i try to write an Thread examle that try to draw lines in every second
from (0,0) to (x, y).
x and y are random between 0..255

Hey everyone...
I'm trying to write a simple word-guessing game (Lingo, user should
guess 5 letter words etc).
I've created some custom AWT Components (sorry for the dutch naming):

I would like to achieve the following:
Scenario:
Component A notifies component B about an event e1. B knows that there
are are various other components interested to know about this event. Is

Hi I've a attached a demo bit of code to go along with the problem explanation that follows.
Basically I have found that if I have a simple JFormattedTextField but assign a formatter to it and
an inputverifier the caret always seems to be set on the left had side when focus is ...