I want to place several kinds of JMenuItem s into a menu bar. All
instances e.g. MyCheckBoxMenuItem are derived from MyMenuItem which in
turn is derived from JMenuItem.
To simplify the example, the custom menu item is derived directly from

hi Group,
The below program compiles and runs perfectly in appletviewer on
windows but gives below error on LINUX
------------ERROR ON LINUX------------

I have a user (in a large university environment) that is using an
application which uses JEditorPane to display reports in HTML format.
Initiatially, the applicaton was set up with :
 URL url = new URL("file:test.htm");

Hello all..
Just wondering if there is a Font dialog object in Java. Looking at the
API's I did not see one.
Thanks in Advance...

I'm using one of the icons from JOptionPane in one of my own dialogs
to get better cross-platform consistency. I use this method to do it:
  StandardIcon standardIcon = new StandardIcon();
  Icon icon = standardIcon.getIcon(JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);

   I have a very newbi question on the construction of a Application for
which I have constructed an Applet front end.
I would like some advice on the number of applets in my application.
I have the initial window as an applet, from which the user can navigate to

I need a visible separator in a JFrame, so the first thing that comes
to mind is JSeparator. However, no matter how hard I try, it still
won't appear in JFrame (I have one in the menu and it displays fine).
So this leads me to my question: Can I use JSeparator in a JFrame? If

By extending Jcomponent, I've created a custom component to draw a grid. The
size of my component and the size of each cell in the grid are calculated
based on the size of the desired font.
My problem is calculating the necessary dimensions so that my custom

I want to make a window GUI that contains the following:
(top) - 3 tabs leading to League, Player, and Club menus (default is to
display League).
(underneath tabs) - a main frame with various nested panels.

I've been trying to find information on how to make the header of a
JTable clickable. I.e I want my users to be able to click the header
and the program do something smart (possibly sorting data, or
whatever)

Is it possible without using Look and Feel things?
i want to replace the knob, track and buttons of a scrollbar by my own, like
for all components by surcharging the paintComponent methods, without
changing its behavior, but i don't find where are the class of those things,

All:
I wrote an applet that runs fine except when the web-page is launched
from a folder containing high-ascii characters (actually german
characters).  I get the following error:

I several JDialogs sub-classes which I'm integrating into a non-Java
application which exposes a Java interface through a scripting language.
When my dialogs are called, they're called with a null owner.  The
problem I have is that, even though I'm sending modal=true in the

i would like to show a JProgessBar during a longer process. I can show
it, but I cannot get the JProgressBar to update the UI, so it just
appears and at the end it disappears again, but it's not changed in the
meantime.

I am having this weird problem. I am using JScrollPane which displays
a JPanel in a JApplet. The scrollbars appear and also display the
image by using scrollRectToVisible(). But as soon as the scrollbars
appear, the image starts flickering and the image is processed