Just wondering what you views are on where to place certain dialog boxes with a
typical MVC setup
A View, A Model, A Controllor
The model holds the data.

is there a way to have a JToolTip being created as a heavy weight component
by default?
The standard behaviour creates a light weight component if the tooltip is
completely within my JFrame and a heavyweight component if part of it is

Is there a method to set the mouse pointer position
(thus to have the program "move" the mouse position
  in some way) ??

I am trying to build a 1 line JPanel with a mix of Labels and buttons of
varying sizes. I was trying to do it with GridBagLayout but it appears
that GridBag loses its variable column spanning abilities with a single
row. Below is a sample program. If it is run "as is", two ...

I am trying to correct a few performance issues with my application,
which display live market data in JTables.
for each update, I use the "invokeLater" method, so create a new
Runnable, and append one event to the event-dispatching thread.

I use various JPanels in my main JFrame via
 mainFrame.setContentPane(new ThePanelIWant());
Now I'd like to have some space between the JFrame border and this inner
panel. Is there a way to achieve this without changing the JPanels code?

I am making a solitaire game for my parents consisting of 52 Cards
(JPanels) in a JFrame. When I press and drag a card around I naturally
would like it to be on top or in the front of the rest of the cards. How
can I sort of put this in the front/on top of the others?

Hi
I'm busy writing a swing application that consists of a JTabbedPane with each tab being a JSplitPane. Each of these JSplitPanes has a bunch of buttons on the left hand side, and pressing a button brings up a JPanel on the right hand side with the appropriate form on it. The ...

I create some JFrame and this class has method witch creat second JFrame,
but in second JFrame I have textPane, and each time when i write
MyTextPane.getCaretPosiotion it returns 0 also after inserting text to Pane.
After creating second window is not active.

Im trying to do simple thing - create modal swt FontDialog. It works not
very well, dialog is modal but it can loose focus when user clicks outside
it's rectangle...
What I simply want is that "modality" that for example standart eclipse

I tried it and I hed serious problems on hp nx7010
Has anybody successfully used openGL in java SWING app?

Hi, i'm new in the NG.
I'm writing a simple application with Eclipse using the Visual Editor
plugin. I've created 2 GUIs for my forms. These GUIs have been written with
SWT Library.

Hey all,
I have a gui that is set up using a GridBagLayout.  The content pane has
nine panels and a JLabel added to it.  Each of the nine panels has one
JList, two JButtons, and a JLabel, set up in border layout.

I am implementing  a KeyListener to listen for key presses.  This works ok
except does not pick up tab key presses.  Does anybody know of a workaround
for this problem?
I am using Red Hat Linux os by the way (don't know if the problem is