I was browsing this newsgroup for interesting topics and found one
post <bc519543.0411081412.1cb6239e@posting.google.com> that talked
about decorator pattern en swing. I did know what the decorator
pattern was, but not how it was related to swing.

I am develoing a GUI Designer and I find it easiest for the user to
use no layout. However, for portability reasons I would like to
convert the screen to GridBagLayout at Saving time. I can see the
conversion being done in JBuilder by changing the insets values. Are

I have several nested components:
JFrame->JTabbedPane->JTabbedPane->JScrollPane->JPanel->JTable
When I resize the application, I want the JTable to resize to fill the
JPanel parent.  Any ideas on how to do that?

Hi guy,
in my code below:
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jd1 = new JDialog();

I am working with handicapped computer users, mostly people with cerebral
palsy.  They do not have the coordination to be able to work a mouse, but
they can, with varying degrees of effort, type on a keyboard.  I therefore
want every item on a dialog to be accessable using keyboard ...

Hi group,
 The program have a JPanel as canvas for painting diagrams. if it's added
directly the jframe content pane, then everything's fine. Otherwise, for ex
if it's added to a tabbed pane which is in turn added to the content pane,

How do we inherit the textfield such  that it only accepts only
numbers and not text???
please reply wit code or some hint

I'm trying to drag a component to a new location on mousedragged event
but the movement is pretty bouncy. When I see the mouseevent's points,
they are indeed bouncy like (29,29), then (58,2), then (27,30) and
then (54,3). My code is below:

Basically I want to allow the background image of the panel to show through
my JTable specifically on the arears where the cells don't fill up. I have
tried to set the table by using setOpaque(false) but that didn't work. Any
suggestions. Even a way to allow the scroll pane size ...

I'm trying to make some cells in a JTable that hold blobs of text "more
usable".
I've implemented a tool tip that displays extended contents on hover, which
is nice.

I want to be informed about drag and drop events that occured anywhere
in the vm (for all components). Is this possible?
Regards,
Christoph

I am trying to programmatically click a hypertext link at the top of a
JEditPane.  I use the following code:
MouseEvent me1 = new MouseEvent(resultsEditPane,  
                      MouseEvent.MOUSE_CLICKED,

I have a JTextArea object, and I use getInputMap().put() ... to define
hot key for specified action.
If user presses hot-key several times at once, only the first one should
be taken (I have isWorking flag to tell me whether I can let the action

ColorUIResource selBack =
 (ColorUIResource)UIManager.getDefaults()
 .get("Tree.selectionBackground");
The above line, which I've broken up for readaility, throws a

I'm creating JMenus containing JMenuItems.
I use setIcon() to set the icons of these JMenu Items.
However, I can't get the icon to fill the left column of the JMenu.
It just shows up to the right of some margin of blank space.