Does anyone know of a way to display a Word document in a JEditorPane?
I can display an rtf document using the RTFEditorKit, so one method
might be to convert the Word document to rtf format, then display it.  
Is there an open source program to convert from Word format to rtf?

Is there a way to set the charset of the swing widgets (just JTextField
and JTextPane would do as well)? Currently all extended characters are
rendered as square "boxes".
Thanks in advance :-)

I've seen posts talking about this in the past but no body has ever
acknowledged a bug or proposed a solution.  What gives?
If you try to download a file from a website in a Java Swing app, the
file comes down but the progress bar doesn't show.  Try the two code

does anyone knows how to change a menuItem component.
e.g. i would like to have a menu with bacground = black and foreground
white....
Some suggestion? Thanks a lot

I would like to change the brightness of a Color object in Java. To do
so I change the Color to the HSB color space, increase the brightness
and convert it back to RGB. However, the output color is NOT brighter,
it seems rather strange.

is there a border that only draws on the bottom of a parent component?
I'am look for something like EtchedBorder that only draws a bottom line;
and yes I don't want to create one myself if one already exist ;-)
Thx

Hi pals,
      How can I write a program which will run in background without
the knowledge of the user. I mean the program should not display
anything, even a DOS prompt or a GUI. For example the program should

I use a JPanel as a Canvas to draw some shapes. The Panel is embedded in an
JScrollPane.
When I scale the canvas ( i do this in the paint() - method by using scale()
method) my drawing zoomes like i want it. But the drawing is bigger than

I am not really proficient in Java, so please excuse if this question is
 trivial:
I got an application which consists of several JPanels next to each
other, which are all called from one Master JPanel. One of the JPanels

I have a JFrame which I want an initial size 500x400.
For Layout I use GridBagLayout
My JFrame is this:
JFrame( JTabbedPane( JScrollPane(JTextArea) ) )

Well I actually have two questions.  
First:
This is simple and I am missing a simple answer.  First is how can I
change the background colour on a JButton?  For example to colour is

This is cool!
http://napkinlaf.sourceforge.net/

When i maximize the frame all my buttons change place , and then i
have all my components in desorder.
And if i don`t press to maximize or if i press to minimize, my program
runs correctly!

Hi, I'm writing a graphics program, and I'm currently implementing a
zoom function. The graphics are drawn on a JPanel wrapped in a
JScrollPane, and while my zoom is working fine as far as scaling the
graphics, I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out how to scroll the

Basically I'm doing the following:
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DefaultTableModel myTableModel=
    new DefaultTableModel(new String[] {"header1","header2"},0);