I'm looking for a simple Java GUI
to enter data into an XML "database".
(The term database may be misleading, so this may be OT.)
The data I want to enter might be addresses into an address list.

I thought it was just JList but Add Events (right click on component,
Event / AddEvents...) is no longer working for any component or
container.   I right click and the events dialog never appears.  The
problem seems to only be my one projects.

I'm working on the well-known graphic demo 'turtle',
which will be included in a larger project,
where I have to simulate a route of a robot.
As I'd like to insert functions like zooming, streching etc.,

I have to draw many images (can be some hundreds, of every sizes).
These images can be overlapping each other. Moreover, the user must be
able to pick whatever image and move it.
I was wondering what is the solution for the best performances.

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class SimpleFrame

I am writing a display of a system for delivering fluids. As part of
the display I want to show flow in the pipes. Ideally the flow would
be shown with an animation either using an animated gif or a
sophisticated draw routine to show flow in those pipe where fluid is

Problem: I have a Swing GUI with two JTextAreas (Events and Events2)
and an Edit menu with one option (Copy).  It's a prototype I wrote in
order to try and figure out how to copy text from two different text
areas.  My assumption was that Swing was smart enough to determine in

I would like to have some key and mouse listeners with particular actions
for all my components "myButton", "myList", "myTextPane", etc... which
derivate from JButton, JList, JTextPane and so on, and always do the same
things.

Hi,
I have an application that I would like to disable for user input
while showing a wait cursor. It should be disabled every time an
action event is processed from a button and I have tried using a

Hello All..
I have posted the new Screenshots of DatabaseManagerSwing Class. Hope
you enjoy. Feedback is possible. Not sure when it will be integrated but
it is coming! I have to pass the changes along to Fred.

if I put an ImageIcon label into a JScrollPane (as shown below), it
works.
JLabel view = new JLabel(new ImageIcon("bin/HD01.jpg"));
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(view);

As suggested in FAQ 4.3 I try to build and start my Swing GUI with
invokeLater(). How can I access variables of my main method (eg. command
line arguments)?
With following code I get an error:

The problem is quite straighforward:
I am double buffering an image which represents an horizontal table, as you
might expect this could get really wide. If the table changes (row deleted
or added) I redraw the buffer otherwise I only draw the image that's in the

I've created ComboBox and passed in constructor vector with some
objects. This way  combobox for each object in vector invokes method
toString (this is what user sees). How can I overwrite this method, I
mean I'd like to write to ComboBox not result of calling toString but

I want to convert a BufferedImage of type TYPE_INT_ARGB to indexed with
16 colors.
I am creating an IndexColorModel with 16 colors and then converting the
image using ColorConvertOp.filter.