I am writing a GUI, in which I am trying to use keyboard combination. I use
following code for a key combination of SHIFT+D.  This code is working fine
for a combination of two keys.
JMenuItem editDivMenuItem = new javax.swing.JMenuItem("A EDIT MenuItem",

How do you prevent someone from moving columns (the order of columns) in a
Jtable by dragging them. I remember there is a means ot prevent users from
doing this, but I cannot find it. Thanks, Ike

The modifiers of the mouse-clicked event object tell me weather alt or shift
or ctrl key is down. What's the best way to detect whether some other key
(such as "Space" or "a") is down? The idea is to simulate the photoshop
feature that when alt and space are both pressed the active ...

i wrote a chat client and just finished an alpha-version which seems to work
fine.
i would appreciate it very much, if you could have a look at it,
and tell me what you think about the gui.

I am creating a preview with certain number of images. The images are
stored in a LinkedList in the portrait and landscape format. There are
like 20 images in both formats when created using the following method.
I am getting a java.lang.OutofMemory error. I suspect this is because

I want to start working with Swing and I'd really like a good book to get me
started. I'm thoroughly versed in Java, and have worked with MFC using C++
before, as well as the more rudimentary C-style Windows GUIs. I'd like to
learn enough of Swing so that I can create multiple ...

Do you have and idea why the focus lost event is sent *bevore* a list
selection event? Look at the following program:
public class Test extends JFrame {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

I have a frame divided in two by a JSplitPane - one half contains a
JList inside a JScrollPane. My question is this -- when i display the
frame if the content of the jlist does not occupy the entire height of
the frame  the remainder is filled by a rather unconvincing (grey) ...

I need to develope an awt-based app, which requires a list menuitems are
created based on current application model when the Menu to which the list
of menuitems are attached is clicked. An actionListener registered to Menu
won't be triggered because action event is not fired by Menu ...

I was wondering if/how you can override the graphics methods (just
paint(), in this case) of a canvas. Normally I'm extending the canvas,
so I can just override the methods in the class:
public class SomeThing extends Canvas{

I'd like to draw a string in the top left corner without any space
between the border and the string. I'm using FontMetrics to get the
Fonts size attributes. However, it seems that getAscent() returns a
value which is 'corret ascent' + leading. The string does not appear on

Is there any color picker component out there ? I'd like to make
something similar to the color picker buttons in the paintshop pro or
photoshop toolbars, where you can see the current background and
foreground colors to be used. I need something like this:

Does anyone know comprehensive tutorial and/or what, why and how
documentation on the design structure of the javax.swing.text.html
package and its sub-package classes? I sorely miss it!

 would you like to tell me how to highlight the entire row in
jeditorpane? no only the text, i want to highlight from the leftmost
to the rightmost of the jeditorpane.
thanks

I've created an animated GIF that only repeats twice.
It works fine if I look at it in IE, but when I put it into a JLabel, it
repeats infinitely.
Is there any way to make an animated gif not loop continuously?