Is there any java example  for that?
Thanks
sam

   I'm looking for material books, or webpages that offer guidelines
for developing forms and screens with Swing Layout managers.
I'm looking for something that provides guidence or examples on
approaches to adding swing components to layout managers to build

The code that follows is the start of a user interface that I am
creating for a Java Application.  I am having troulb getting the
application to properly display the ImageIcon icon (which represents
canada.gif).  Can anyone give me a clue as to why it is not displaying

I'm making a civ clone in Java and it is in a somewhat advanced state, but
I'm having swing problems...
I have a UI object which coordinates which windows are shown and at which
time, the thing is that I create a form and place things here and there....

This code works for "JPEG" but not "gif" or "GIF".
Why?
// repaint onto a BufferedImage
BufferedImage bufferedImage = new BufferedImage ( width + inset * 2,

How do I center the JTable/JTableHeader header text?
With JLabels, it works with calling the constructor:
JLabel lb = new JLabel(str, JLabel.CENTER);
However with JTable, I don't call any constructors but these:

I looked at the sizes of file created from the same image:
2,079  PSP.png
1,408  SUN.png
2,766  PSP.jpg

I am trying to place an empty string at the very beginning of a list
of dates in a JSpinner.DateEditor.  I want to give the user the option
to select nothing if they don't want to pick a date.  I have extended
JSpinner and SpinnerDateModel as a means of doing this, but this just

GetLineMetrics wants a graphics context.  I don't have one until my
paintComponent gets called.  I am trying to calculate sizes ahead of
time.  Is there a way to get a "default" Graphics context so you can
do FontMetrics stuff?

 is anybody using XML to build Java Swing or Eclipe UIs? Can you you
let us know what toolkit you use (e.g. Thinlet, SwiXml, Beryl, Vexi,
JellySwing/SWT, GroovySwing/SWT, Luxor, etc.) and how it all works
out?

What's the best solution to this problem?
There is a JComboBox on a JPanel.  After a user clicks on it, it has
focus and
therefore receives keyboard events which should be going to the

When I was using awt I extended my class with Applet to draw objects on
and let to move around etc ...
But what component can I use within a swing application ?

I'm currently implementing a swing GUI which uses a glass pane. My problem
is with the MouseListener:
I intercept the mouse events on the glass pane, and dispatch events to the
underlying components when necessary. I looked at an example in the Sun Java

I am working on a chat applet (awt only), and I would like it to show an image
next to some text received from the server. I have looked everywhere I
can think of for a similar piece of code, but I haven't succeeded yet.
I use a TextArea for inserting the text received but I don't ...

Something with MVC that I cannot quite get is the separation of
Model-View-Control with the use of Java Swing components on the View and the
corresponding Component model.
E.g.  View uses JTree and JTable.  JTree has a TreeModel and JTable has a