Sup everyone,
I'm still only a scenior in highshool, but I am attempting to make
a full screen version of the board game Triopoly (Monoply with 3 levels
and a heck of a lot more money going around the table).  I am currently

I've been having the toughest time with this....
I want to have a JFrame with 3 containers in it.
The containers are laid out top to bottom.
Inside the first 2 containers I want 4 rows of a JLabel and

i want to make "welcome screen" for my application, with a few buttons and a
jpg picture in a background.
How to put that background picture in a JFrame ?

I have strange behaviour of a custom component which I don't quite
understand.
I have a JPanel which I use to draw a filled rectangles on whereever the
mouse is pressed by the user. The rectangles are extended from JComponent to

I am having a problem getting the cursor to change from the standard
pointer to the wait cursor. I create the Cursor object, then set the
cursor appropriately, then do whatever it is I need the wait cursor for,
but, the cursor never changes.

I am sure this problem has been solved many times, but I can't seem to
find an answer on the WEB.  I have a simple JTree (I do have my own
renderer using JLabel with icons) contained in a JScrollPane.  The
JScrollPane is the only component on the left side of the JSplitPane.

I have a JTable with editable fields. The values of one of the columns
must be unique. Therefore, I would like to reject any non-unique value
entered into that column.
Ideally, pressing 'Enter' would not stop the editing when an invalid

I have made an app that reads file contents and displays them in a
JTable. At program start, the table model (the data and the headers)
are simply two empty ("new") ArrayLists. When a file is opened, a new
table model is assigned to the JTable. To facilitate data exchange, I

I've try VE editor, but it seems very slow.
There  is a builder more light for eclipse to
create UI?
I've see something also about a particular xml

Ive got a transparant png set as the normal, over and pressed icons for
a jbutton, which are on a transparant jpanel. when it loads, the image
on the button is transparant. with the mouse over its the same, but when
i click the button the transparancy goes dark grey, how do i fix ...

My needs are simple.  I am porting an existing application to Java.
One of the characteristics of the application is that when the user moves to
a field, he may overtype the existing contents without having to scrape it
first.

Sup everyone,
I'm still only a scenior in highshool, but I am attempting to make
a full screen version of the board game Triopoly (Monoply with 3 levels
and a heck of a lot more money going around the table).  I am currently

someone could suggest me a sample code for make a zip file of a folder and
subfolders in it?
thanks.

Hi, im currently working on a basic GUI application using Java.  I
have intially come across a problem.
How do you manually set a JButton's Width to 159px and its Height to
26px?

Does anyone know how to get a JTable to resize to fill its parent
container?  In my case I have a JScrollPane which holds a JPanel
containing a JTable.  When I resize the application, the JTable stays
its original size.