I have an application that incorporates image buttons and is run on
both windows and mac.  The problem that I am having is that the buttons
using images on the mac are set in a sort of bubble button, whereas on
windows, they are just omages on a flat background.  I would like to

It seems to me the font is different in java5 (or however they now want us
to refer to it) for (at least) spinner buttons (JSpinner).
Or is it, perhaps, that the layout is slightly different?
At any rate, spinners that correctly show the word "unknown" in 1.4 now

I'm about to start out on a Java based board game, somewhat similar to
monopoly or whatever. - The player rolls a dice, moves his piece around
on the board, then solves some kind of task depending on where he lands.
I have a little experience with graphics programming from earlier, ...

Hi all,
I want to resize the container which holds JSplitPane. The situation
is with right button pressed the container should be resized to the
size of left component of JSplitpane and with left button pressed

I was wondering if it is possible to create a window, where the size
is dependant on the resolusion that's currently being used. That is it
should set the size automaticly if run on different computer where the
resolution setting for the monitors are different.

just for my information: is there a reason why all the world uses
JScrollPane together with JTextArea?
I tried to add a text area to a simple JPanel but without success, but why
won't this work?

I have to get some graphics made for a series of toolbar buttons.  We are
PNG but will Swing allow you to use the Alpha channel for transparency?  (It
is in the PNG spec but that doesn't it's avialable for use...)
Does anybody have any insight into this?

I use the library jakarta commons net to do a FTP upload to FTP server.
I like know if it's possible to get the state of the data transfert. The goal
is to integrate a progress bar in my application.
thanks for your help.

I'm working on an app that has around 100 entry fields (of various types,
JCheckBox, JTextField, etc., as well as fields within JTables).  I want to
keep track of whether any field has been changed so that the "cancel"
button can reliably report whether changes will be lost.

i have some jtogglebuttons, and i want to change there color when
their selected state is true. as fas as i got it, this doesnt work
with changing background color. anybody has clue how to do that??
cheers

In my project all JFrames are undecorated (setUndecorated(true)) and
many graphical components are added to the JPanel.
But, before all components and colors are added to a new JFrame(), the
user can see for 1/2 seconds the Frame as gray,undecorated.

I have seen couple of threads on this matter, and the matter seemed to
have been fixed in JDK 1.4.
Here is a description of the problem. You open a modal dialog, and then
a non-modal dialog from the modal dialog, all mouse input to the

I'd like to have a JTree (also I define a custom model for its) node
that has no children without having the sign '+'
to the left of the folder (in WindowsLookAndFeel) disappear.
Has anyone found a way to do this?

I've been trying to solve this for some time now.
I have come across several suggestions pushing the use of
invokeLater() to get the text appended to the JTextArea to show up to
no avail.

I use a JTable, for one column I have specified a custom
TableCellRenderer.
This works fine for some time (sometimes 1 minute, sometimes 2h), but
then for no obvious reason my custom renderer is no longer used and