Sorry to blatently sensationalise my post, for once I'm in a hurry.
Here is a short compilable example that illustrates my problem.
To sumarise, I require the combobox to change its preferredsize as the
source for BasicComboBoxUI indicates it should when fireContentsChanged() is

Questions:
1.    Whats the current percentage of people hand coding Java GUI versus
using automated tools to generate GUI?
2.    What program do people recommened to develop a quick gui without the

I create JFrame from my main JFrame and want to
"kill" it, so when I press the button which create it again,
that I get new one. How ?

I'm writing a simple Swing Application.
The main frame of the program contains a panel and a button.
What i want to do is to draw a red line on the panel when the button is pressed.
I want to do this without clearing the current contents of the panel.

is there a way to change the foregroundcolor of a single line in a jList?
thanks
Bernd

I have a problem with a JDialog that I'm trying to have appear on top
of a Frame.
I'm clicking a cell in JTable inside my JFrame, and I want the dialog
to appear right below this cell.

I want a JTextArea to always be 250 pixels wide (to keep a FlowLayout
the proper length) but also be able to expand in the y direction as
large as possible, depending on the size of the text inserted. Small
text, short box. Lots of text, long box. I don't want a scrollbar or

currently I am eveluating some look and feels
(see for example http://www.javootoo.com) and
I was wondering what user people like best.
So, some recommendations?

How can I detect the current value of a JSlider when I am dragging
the knob?
What event/listener I need to catch/use?
Thanks

   I'm looking for input on what it would involve to build a reasonably
featured html-editor component. This thing would eventually end up in an
applet, used for inserting content in pre-made html-templates which
we'll send out as html mail.

We're going to be developing a large app which will contain over 100 screens
for the user.  Initially we thought that this would mean many JFrames (i.e.
each screen is a JFrame).
Talking to a Sun consultant this was advised as a bad idea as JFrames are

I just downloaded the J2SE 5.0 Release Candidate and I'm trying out some
of my older Swing applications[1]. Much to my dismay, the memory usage
is quite a bit higher. For instance, one application that used 20Mb RAM
at startup now uses 25Mb at startup. (Checked through Windows Task

My model class implements ComboBox model and extends AbstractListModel
I don't want to use DefaultComboBox Model because I need to setData in one
go without firing events for every row of data added.
I set the model for the JComboBox view once, and am hoping to rely on the

I am not certain if I need to extend JEditorPane, or a related class (maybe
an editor kit or HyperlinkListener), or if what I am looking for is already
there and I just missed it.
Here is the functionality I am after.  I want to create an applet that opens

I have 2 JTextField, text1 and text2.
The user type e.g. "abc" in text1.
When the user tag to JTextField text2 or move the cursor to JTextField text2,
"abc" will appear in text2.