I was updating a program that I wrote many years ago when I was just
learning Java.
I noticed a small bug in it. When I used it as an Applet it worked
fine, but when I used it as an Application, it would chop a slice off

Is there a way to find out where the mouse is now?
I know you can field MouseMotionEvents in a given Component, but what
I am after is something simpler, just "where is the mouse in screen
co-ordinates right now", sort of the inverse of Robot.  Is that

I'm trying to set the number of copies of my print job.
If I include the call to "printDialog" all is OK. The print
dialog shows 3 how the number of copies.
However if I don´t include that sentence, the job is printed OK,

I've got a little app with a JTextArea inside of a JScrollPane that
displays rows of results.  When the user searches for something one of
the options is to hilite the entire row that contains the search text.
The problem with this is if the data in the row goes past the

in the following program i try to set the spacebelow attribute - but it
doesn?t work; why?
and i want to insert the string "test" with an own component (see code). i
want to use insertComponent(new MyComponent()); and not insertString,

Hey all,
I'm adding JPanelA which has several components to a main JPanel which
is being added on top of a JTabbedPane.
JPanelA is managed by a GridBagLayout.

ImageIO.write( (RenderedImage) image, "JPEG" /* format desired */ , f
);
wants a RenderedImage. How to you convert an ordinary image to a
RenderedImage?

I am having considerable frustration with JScrollPane.  It was
sporadically adding and removing the scrollbars, now it has stopped
altogether.
I have tried everything I could think of to prod JScrollPane into

I probably sound very novice anyway I am struggling with a drawing
application
(a very simple one to be honest!!!). It is supposed to look similar to
the one most versions of windows have. It should have two menus (file

I am just a beginer programmer.  Here is the probelem.  I have a combo
box set up with different methods of payment in each:
Ex. MasterCard, Visa, ATM
I am lloking for the correct place and syntex to make a listener catch

Dear friends,
My name is Theodoros Tsioupros and I am a university student from
Greece. It is the first time I am using a newsgroup and I am writing
to request your precious help with a simple question about Java.

I have a calculator applet that is quite long, so I get scrollbars in
the browser.  However, when I submit the first page of the applet and
display the second one, it is much shorter (I use card layout).  The
problem is that the browser displays the bottom of the applet, while I

Hello :-)
I have the following problem: I am developing an application that has
a text console in which debugging information is displayed.
I am using a JTextPane in a JScrollPane.

i have an application: on top a menubar, at the bottom a splitpane with on
the left a scrollpane and on the right a SimpleUniverse (BranchGroup ). the
first pulldownmenu on the left appears correctly (over the scrollpane), the
other menus do not appear - they are behind the ...

   On a JFrame I have a JScrollPane constructed to display the contents of
a JTextArea.  Initially the JTextArea is empty.  Then I have a very long
string (a whole text document for example) to display which I do with
setText on the JTextArea.  The string is much longer than the ...