Merry christmas to you all.
Can you change the attributes of the MenuItem string label?
I'm thinking of having it in bold?
And how would you do that?

I'd like to use getParameter() and other getXxxx() method of an
applet from an application that puts the applet in a frame window.
I mean I'd be happy if the application could read the parameters
and other data from the original HTML file that has applet tag.

InputVerifier causes Button to stay pressed
See with the following simple compilable example
Is this a bug?
Completely locks up on 1.4,

Can anyone help me with this?
I have a JPanel with a corresponding BufferedImage of the same size
(w,h)
I also have a two dimensional float array representing an image that

Hello again:
I need some guidance on the details of opening a TIFF
file and displaying it, using Swing.
Need more details?

My application launches a web browser to view various files.  I use the
standard trick to launch them:
   Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec( new String[] { "command.com",
             "/c", "explorer", myfilename } );

I want to display some data in grid.. so I chose JTable. I want to use some row
as header, so it takes up whole column space, and for other rows may can take up
2 or 3 column space.
I've searched similar discussion in google group, but their solution is neither

I have a requirement for my current system to support 'always on top'
dialogs.  So far I can't find any way to achieve this in Java.
The ideal behaviour would be similar to that which occurs in MS Word
when doing a Find or Replace - i.e. the search dialog appears and stays

I've got a JFrame which contains a handful of components. Is it
possible to have the JFrame respond to certain key-strokes.. ie.
ctrl-1, f1, etc, etc? Similar to how a menu item can have alt-f set to
bring up the file menu, regardless of what component has focus.

I have a PrinterJob (job).
I don't use Book.
Just before calling job.print(), I call the job.printDialog() method.
The user has the possibility to start printing at page  2 for instance.

Can anybody tell me where I can find an easy-to-integrate Java2D
rectangular component with draggable handles for resizing at its edges
and which can be moved around on a JPanel?
Uh, free stuff only please.

I would like to extend AbstractAction to synchronize three JToggleButton
which are located in three different JFrames. I would like to make sure
that all three buttons are always in the same state (when one is
selected, the others get selected automatically).

Can anyone advise me on how to explicitly set the JOptionPane's button
labels to display my own I18N message(zh_ch)? for example, instead of
"OK", I want to display "OK" in chinese.
Thanks in advance

My application class constructor instantiates a JPanel extended class
which does a complex drawing at the initial showing. In the last part
of the same constructor I call a screen capture method that uses java.awt
Robot and javax.imageio to get a JPEG file of the drawing panel. The

I am trying to develop a Java Program capable of showing a series of
JComboBoxes.  I have them all laid out using SpringLayout.  When one
ComboBox has "custom" selected I would like to show an additional  JComboBox
at the bottom of the Frame.  I can do this by making the frame ...