Is it possible to have a JLayeredPane inside a JPanel??
I've tried this but the JLayeredPane does not display:
JFrame myFrame = new JFrame();
JPanel myPanel = new JPanel();

I have a command line application. It does something and prints texts on the
screen with Syste.out.println(). And now I want to make another program that
has a GUI and can start/stop this first one and can catch the text printed
on the screen and show it in the textarea. Can it by ...

I have the following snippet of code in my application:
Color bgColor = this.jColorChooser.showDialog(this, "Choose Background
Colour",c);
this.jColorChooser is a class variable and the chooser is initiated and

I'm having trouble with my TabbedPanes which containt a JScrollPane with a
JTextArea.
I'm generating these TabbedPanes at runtime, if i select a filename from a
list of files and click my button Edit:

 I just stumbled over Jonny Wray's "Bio Browser" - a Swing based
browser for the cancer bioinformatics web service from the National
Cancer Institute that uses the  SwiXml library that lets you build
Swing UIs using XML.

i created a frame with a dual colored background:
 ....................................
 :                                  : - blue background
 :'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''':

Do you know a free package that I could use to draw the
inheritance/implementation relationships from a package ? Something
like this: I give it the top dir for a package and it produces a
diagram.

This _must_ have been asked before, but I couldn't find a google query
narrow enough to find what I needed.
When a user clicks on a JScrollBar and starts scrolling, I need
something to happen.  When user de-clicks, something else should happen.

I am showing JPopupMenu by JPopupMenu.show(invoker, x, y), and as x and y i
pass mouseEvent coordinates. But next when in action I obtain this
JPopupMenu and call JPopupMenu.getLocation() I receive Point(0, 0).
Anybody knows how to obtain correct location of JPopupMenu?

Is it possible to append one line of text to JTextArea in one color and
other line in other color ? If yes how can i co it ?
If not, is there any other similar component which can do it ?
Thanx

What is the minimum requirement to use a java GUI on linux ?
I guess I need X. But what else do I need ?
Do I need GTK for exemple ? What else ?
Thanks,

Below is what i'm trying to do:
I have a form title "Product", is to manage product's record. And under the
"Product" form, there is a JComboBox that allow user to select the Product
Category, it contain :

How can I get the border used when the button is highlighted (when it has
focus and the LnF supports it. Such as XP LnF etc), I need to set the same
programmatically for a button.
In other words what do I put in the property name below?

I've got a JTable in my application, however the widths of the columns
are all the same. What I would like to do, is base the width of each
column on the widest item related to that column, be it text in one of
my cells, or the name of my column. I've been looking through the API,

Can anyone give me a clue, which is the best way to access swing
components I have on a frame, long after I created them. For example,
I'd like to change their setEnabled() attribute at a later time, not at
creation time. For example, I have a JList inside a JScrollPane inside a