I've been programming rich client applications for a few years now and I
like the fact that Swing lets you do anything you want, but it takes
time. Ofcourse alot of programmers have developed their own kind of
reusable components to reduce the amount of time needed to develop a ...

I have a 2D array that stores a color in each array location. I want
to draw a grid (in a frame) that represents this 2D array. If
arr[0][0] is 'blue' I need the (0,0) location of the array to be blue.
On receiving user input if that array changes I need to redraw that

I have a question regarding updating components in Java Swing.  The
situation is this:
We have a panel that contains a number labels.  The text of these
labels is to be updated once per interval (~5 s), and they should all

How to disable rearrange the columns in a JTable?
Thank you on your help

I doubt it, but is it possible to have an AWT or SWING application
query the native windowing system to determine available geometry without
having to write a native method to accomplish the task?
If so, what class/method is used?

I programmed a simple GUI using Swing with build 1.3.1 on
a Windows machine.  Now someone is interested in using this code under RH Linu!
with a Blackdown 1.4.2 build.  It has been some years since I looked at Java
but I will dig into it if I must.  I just want to do this as fast as ...

I try to implement my own TableColumnModel for JTable.
The problem is that I cannot resize or move the headers by using the mouse.
All I get is an exception (see below).
What am I missing? I don't want to post the whole code here, that's way too

I have a problem with a JTextArea component in a JScrollPane.
Basically, I use getDocument function to get the JTextarea's document.  I
later use the document remove method to clear out the document, and
then use document insert method to refresh the document (based on some

I dont know how to create JButton with picture on background ( not icon )
and text.
thx
sadek

no doubt this problem has been solved multiple times, so it's likely
that for a kind expenditure of a few minutes of your time you could
save me oodles (technical term) of my time spent following the wrong
path(s)...

I have a  JTextPane which has a URL embedded occassionally in some of the
text which is to be displayed in the JTextPane. I am wondering if someone
knows any examples I can access somewhere to show me how to allow the user
to click on the link and invoke a new browser window (the ...

Hi...
New to the group, so this problem has probably been up before.. However:
I have a JInternalFrame with 2 (or more) editable JTables... I need to know
when a table receives and looses focus.. I can't get it to work when the

I am a netbeans user. I have this problem.
I want through netbeans put a JSlider into a JTable cell.
I have read how to code it, but how do I do that through Netbeans?
I use netbeans 3.6 and 4.0 beta 2.

I make a table model calss extends from AbstractTableModel:
public myTableModel extends AbstractTableModel{
 public myTableModel(){
   //.......

Hi to group,
I got a trouble with the awt applet below.
The  FIRST TIME i left click and hold the mouse down (pressed) on Canvas, i
don't get the message "Pressed" as i would expect. However from the second