I have a problem where I need to set the owner of a dialog after it has
been constructed.  Looking at the API, it looks like the only place i
can set the owner is in the super(Frame owner) or super(Dialog owner)
constructors.

When I put a JPanel with a GridLayout, followed by a
Box.createVerticalGlue, why does not all the extra space go into the
glue? It seems that the extra space is spread within the gridLayout and
the glue.

I am having a problem rendering background colors in my JTable.  Based
on the last column (Calibration Results - with the value of either
"Pass" or "Fail"), I want to color the entire row of the table green or
red respectively.  I have checked online and through usenet, and my

I have written a small program in Java, which performs complicated and
long-lasting calculations. So I want to illustrate the progress of
these calculations by a text (percent work done) placed in JLabel
component. But I have a "small" problem - this text doesn't change

How can I set the column width for a JTable?
Is there a way to set the row height for all rows in a table?
Currently, I'm using setRowHeight(row, height) but you have to call it
for every row.

A couple years back i had a link to a website which had many examples
on how to use a jtable the advanced way. Examples like putting
combobox in a cell, colloring a cell, collapse/expand rows in a
jtable.

I have seen components like JLabel and JTree with a thin line around
them creating a nice border.  Would anyone know how to do this?

Does anyone know the method to add another MutableTree Node to a tree
after a DefaultMutableTreeNode has been added?  Or how to add another
node to the tree?
I tried to add a 2nd DefaultMutableTreeNode to a tree with add() but

Is there a SWING component that I can use to create a "circle" JSlider?
I would like to retain the functionality of the JSlider but instead of
a horizontal or vertical slider, I would like to make it a circle
slider.

Hi, I'm new with Java graphic. I have an xml file with the informations
about the slots (attribute) of each module of my sistem, like
     <module name="NomeComponente" type="action">
         <phase>1</phase>

I am trying to print the contents of a JTextPane which contains five
pages of styled text and two embedded images. I am using the windows
native page format and print dialog. The entire content of the
JTextPane prints without flaws if i decide to print all the pages. The

I'm searching for an equation viewer for displaying equations itself, not as
a graph or something like that. It should be a component for easily using
with swing and awt.
I have to display mathematical equations and it's no fun with labels and

There is a new Yahoo group called " Traffic-Cams "
This group discusses everything related to online and realtime
traffic-cameras
We have a very extensive links-section with links to thousands of online

I have a JSplitPane with a JTree on the left and a JTabbedPane on the
right. I want the JTabbedPane replaced, based on the actual type of the
object that is clcked.
That works OK but the following happens:

I think this subject is pretty common, but I could not find any solution to
my problem.
Long story short: Is there something I can call inside a class that is in
the main thread so that it is kept alive, or stopped, while a Swing class