Hello everyone! Im relitively new to Java GUI programming, so bear with me :)
I am attempting to create a text field that will insert the rest of a word (and
select what it inserts) when the user begins typing the word.
At the moment, the implementation consists of a class extending ...

I am using a JEditorPane embedded in a non-modal dialog to display
help information for my application. My help info is contained in a
set of html files.
This works well except when the user invokes a modal dialog. At that

I'm having problems with JFileChooser.
Seems that if you click on a directory name, that name will stick
to the "File Name:" box until you click on something else.  This
causes a problem because if you click on a directory name, then

Is there any way of setting a system-wide mouse cursor? I can see
Component.setCursor(), but obviously that only has effect on the particular
component specified. I want the mouse cursor to stay the same even if
dragged outside of frame bounds etc.

Hi NG,
I am looking for an API enabling me to display XML-Files in a Java-GUI.
Using JFormattedTextField doesn't really fulfill all my needs, so I would be
happy with any suggestions/input as to what could be used for that purpose.

 Alan Williamson has kicked off a new series of tutorials about the
Thinlet XUL toolkit that lets you build Java UIs using XML in the
Thinlet World.
 In the first episode titled "Tutorial One: Calculator Example" Alan

I am facing a very strange problem: I'm unable to change the background
color of a tab i a tabbed pane using setBackgroundAt.  If I use
setForegroundAt in the same place, it works fine.
All of these changes are made before everything gets visible

I can make an invisible column visible again using the following code.
But this newly visible colum is not resizable anymore..I wonder why..
int width = 50;
resultTable.getColumnModel().getColumn(index).setMinWidth(width);

I have a JTree which I want to use a drag source. The nodes must be
transfered in a special Transferable type, as they are not serializable.
Unfortunately my Transferable is never used, but a standard awt
transferable.

I have an object of class
java.awt.Graphics
or
java.awt.Component

 i'm building a small app that includes a feature that is renaming
tree nodes. I'm trying to figure out a way of doing this through the
JTree itself that is available in the application GUI ... anyone knows
how to help me with this? ...

This is a simple GUI I am working on
Container col1 = new Box(BoxLayout.Y_AXIS);
JComponent label1 = new JLabel ("Column1",SwingConstants.CENTER);
col1.add(label1);

ak....
This is what I have:
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

I have a method in one of my classes which adds a few items to a JComboBox,
and buttons for Ok and Cancel.  What I want is for the user to select one of
the items in the JComboBox and click Ok which will cause the method to
return a String.  I cant seem to do this, I think my design ...

I am digging around trying to find a method chain that will let me
take what I have drawn on a JPanel with a Graphics2D object and save
it as a GIF.  I need to somehow convert it into a BufferedImage.
I will continue digging, hoping someone will find a more elegant