I have a JMenu, the top JMenuItem of this JMenu fires a JOptionPane.
After dismissing the JOptionPane and returning to the JMenu:
I click on the JMenu to activate it.
The Menu pops up as normal.

I try to create a JTabbedPane object, but it does not work. What is wrong??
Mike
======Codelist.java========
import java.awt.*;

I use Suse Linux, and there i run a mysql database. I have updated my system
to SuSE 9.1 and since then the connection over jdbc seems not to work
anymore. My own java programs throw a 'connection refused' and even the
jboss i'm running too with mysql says the same thing. I can ...

How can I make my editable Combo box limited to the items in the list (like
when using the LimitToList property in MS Access)?
Not just making it highlight matching items in the list, but also refusing
input that doesn't match the list entries?

Please help me understand the correct architecture of using the Tree
Model.
I have a database which I need to query and populate the jtree on the
fly.

Is there any way I have missed to use an AWT ScrollPane and have just
vertical or just horizontal scrolling?
Going to JScrollPane makes me lose unsigned Applet cut and paste.

I have a cell renderer for a JList that is supposed to render the foreground
color in blue, and also insert tabs into the lines.  When this code is
changed to run as an application, the cell renderer performs as expected.
When the code is run as an applet, the cell renderer has no ...

I'll first sketch the situation of my problem. I'm writing an IRC-like
program, and we're talking about the message view. The messages are
shown by a JTable, which is made scrollable using a JScrollPane. The
JTable uses custom renderers to allow long messages to be line-wrapped.

When I enter keyboard input into the JFormattedTextField object, the input
is not being retained when the field has lost focus.
I am using SDK/JRE 1.4.0, Windows XP Professional.
import javax.swing.*;

I have discovered that JTextAreas behave differently from TextAreas.
You can select text, but when you hit Ctrl-C nothing happens. You
can't copy the selection to the clipboard.
I'm in an unsigned JApplet so I can't poke the clipboard myself.

What is a the best way to organize files when programming a java GUI?
Sorry if this is a trivial question but I am rather new to programming
and would like some input from this group.
Right now, I have one large file with the frame, panels, widgets and

Okay I've spent the last 3hrs trying to figure out why my tabbed panes are
acting strangely, but have had no luck. So hope someone here can help me
out.
Basically i have a class that produces my window,meubar, etc.. this class

I have a class that derives from DefaultMetalTheme (see below).  I
call MetalLookAndFeel.setCurrentTheme to install it.  This works fine
in a standalone program, but not at all from an applet!  No exception,
no nothing--it simply doesn't work.

I have a question about the concat() method. I do not see it working, that
is, concatinating strings to a string. I have to be doing someting wrong.
here is the piece of code:
     try {

I'm trying to create a file transfer window that shows a file moving
from a client computer to a server.
I have an applet that pops up a JFrame from a user action. The JFrame
is using a BorderLayout and has a JLabel at BorderLayout.NORTH, a