I thought I would be able to use:
    Component focusOwner = window.getFocusOwner();
    anotherComponent.requestFocusInWindow();
    // do some work

I have a JPanel with custom painting on it. If tell the mouseMoved()
method to repaint() the JPanel it repaints() the whole JFrame,
including all sorts of other components beside the JPanel in it,
inside the Panel.

is it possible to display the buttons in a JOptionPane with Icons?
The text can easily be changed via
UIDefaults.put("OptionPane.okButtonText", "My Text"). Is there a key
like "OptionPane.okButtonIcon"?

I have a JPanel with a GridBagLayout. In one place a JPanel is shown,
which has a lot of custom paintig on it. What I wanted to achieve was
have a rectangle move with the mouse over the JPanel with the custom
painting, without changing the painting and repaintig the whole JPanel

I'm a total newbie to Java (forced into it via a master's class, actually,
but enjoying it!).  I've scoured my Java books and the web for what I'm sure
is very simple stuff but am coming up blank.
Basic premise: build an applet that has a JTextArea in which to display some

Hello, when i have return in a void method, why doesn't i get a syntax error
here  only becoz its the main method?
public static void main(String[] args) {
  int max = 0;

I want to use the Decorator Pattern to draw small squares around a
JComponent when it is selected. For that I've inherited a class from
JComponent and have a member variable that is the actual component. I
redirect all the JComponent methods to that member variable. However,

Hi
I'm a student and I need to develope an application in java for
Windows CE.
Now I've installed on my pc Eclipse and a sun virtual machine for

Hi, I have this problem:
I want to create a window that has / is a scrollPane and on this
scrollpane you should see various tables that are inside of other
scrollpanes and on top of each of those tables a little JPanel as

I have a modal dialog with a text area and a button on it. The button
launches another dialog. This second dialog has buttons on it which
attempt to change the text area on the original dialog, however, this
dialog is 'frozen' and none of the buttons work. I know this is an

// Trying to 1) create a modal dialog 2) launch a dialog from that
modal
// dialog 3) modify the original modal dialog based on an event on the
new

I was asked to draw 3d points in a coordinate system to describe a
psychological experiment. The points change in time.
Two options came to my mind on how to realize this.
1.) Java 3d API, which I'm not at all familiar

  I'm having problems with the JScrollPane class. I have a JPanel
subclass which I'd like to be able to scroll in my app. The JPanel
subclass implements the Scrollable interface:
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Gurus:
Two questions:
1. Regarding the following code, why is updateUI called twice?
ie, once implicitly by B's constructor at line 8 and once explicitly

I have created a few JButtons/JLabels but the text on them seems to
disappear depending on the platform the gui is run on (The disappearing text
appears as "..."). How is it possible to set the size of the label/button
according to the length of the text?