I have an editable JTree. I can change the name of the node by
double-clicking and typing a new name.  However if I click on any other tree
node before pressing Return, the node name reverts back to what it was
before.  Is there a way to modify this behavior and make the node name

"A Future Computer Scientist" <ghosst_75_24a@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hi people,
A few weeks ago I set off to start learning Java but having big fights
with the NetBeans IDE trying to import existing .java files and
projects.

I have successfully added tooltips to the nodes in the JTree.  How can
I add additonal tooltips to the icons in the JTree?
I have created an icon with a description:
Icon icon= new ImageIcon("icon.gif", "icon description");

I am trying to teach myself Java programming by working through the Divelog
tutorial on the Sun Java website. I've got to the end of part 2 (adding the
welcome screen with the pretty pictures), and everything almost works. No
compile errors, and the screen opens up more or less as ...

How would I go about getting the Fixedsys font into a Swing
application? And I don't mean just a fixed width font, but the actual
windows Fixedsys font.
From what I've found, Java doesn't support it natively, but is there a

I know how to add/apply formatting to the entire text area, but do I
display something like the following in a text area?
some words <b>bold words</B> some more words
(I an trying to display the "bold words" in bold)

How to set text color of individual strings inside a JTable?
I need to select the color based on the text, i.e. setting the color of the
column, cell etc. will not do.
Hannu

I am facing a problem in setting the mouse cursor to hourglass (Wait
cursor)
when executing a method triggered by a mouse click (an event handler
method for the mouse).

I am using a ScrollPane to make a JTree scrollable. I can scroll with
the mouse, but if select an other item which isn't in the viewable area
with the keyboards up and down keys it doesn't scroll. How can i let the
JTree scroll like it should?

   I'm trying to write a component similar to JFileChooser. I am using a
JList for this purpose to display the files and directories.
Depending upon the FileSelectionMode, I want to display the files and/or
directories. Particularly if the mode is DIRECTORIES_ONLY, I want to ...

I'm looking for a way to gray out icons, like it is done for disabled
actions. I was looking through the java source code but missed the right
place. Where could I find examples for simple image conversions like this,
e.g. gray out, brighten, darken etc. ?

- I have a JPanel with a JTextField in it.
- The JTextField has a key listener attached to it.
  nameTF.addKeyListener(this);
- When the user hit's "Enter" in the text field I want to validate the

I've been using Netbeans to create a gui program.  I'm finding that it's
taking longer than it should to position my components and panels etc in my
user interface.  I'm starting to think that this ide could be alot better.
Does anyone know of any other free IDE that's good for ...

For JFormattedTextField's I have implemented a length formatter, which
disallows entering more than a certain number of characters.
How can I implement this behaviour for JTextArea's?
Regards,