i have a program with jpanel that have a gif that will animated.
i have one more jpanel class that have jScrollPane that contains
the first jPanel class.and i have Jframe that contains the second
Jpanel the one with The jScrollpane.

I'm using JGoodies Forms and Looks and I'm generally am very happy with
it. I have one nagging problem, however, that crops up in a lot of
places in my app.
Basically, the problem is in the use of a subsidiary JPanel used within

Hello, configuring the toolbar with action-classes (also needed for
menu, popupmenu) I assumed that the Action.Name is not shown at the
toolbar buttons right from the icons. They are shown as assumed right
from the icons at the menuitems.  I can see that also in an example of

I know: "This has been answered a thousand times before, search Google
Groups".
But I'd like to add something..
This is my problem, it's a well known one - I've found it on several

How do I put buttons on a Jtoolbar that I will dock either BorderLayout.EAST
or .WEST such that the buttons runs vertically along the toolbar rather than
horizontally? Thjanks, Ike

I have a null layout, whereupon I have placed 2 JPanels, where they overlap
for a portion of their dimensions.
One of the JPanels I want to always appear on top of the other, at the point
of overlap. Is there some means of doing this? Thanks, Ike

I have a jcombobox as an editor inside a jtable.
I would like to switch to the editor as soon as they enter the column
with the jcombobox in it so they can start editing right away.
This is an editable jcombobox, so when tabbing through the columns in

How can I tell if a call to JTree setSelectionPath(TreePath path) fails
because of an invalid path? I have a search function set up which
stores TreePaths. While browsing the TreePaths I choose one or more and
when I do, I expand the chosen TreePath (using setSelectionPath()) and

I have followed the pointers about performing localization of a JFileChooser
and I have succeeded in getting all of the strings do represent the
currently selected Locale.  However I cannot see how to customize the
mnemonic character on those strings that are used in labels or ...

I am using a SwingWorker thread to run a Genetic algorighm(GA)
optimisation. I am showing a graph published by data that is sent from
the optimisation task using Observable / Observer mechanisms. The GA
job runs "long" (several minutes up to endless). I have two JTextArea

I find that the JMenuItem dissapears very quickly.
I want to be able to delay the dissapearance by couple of seconds
so that it gives me enough time for me to recover from my mistake.
Alternatively, i think what would be better is if someone can show me

I have JFrame MAIN, and i want to open a new JFrame from that frame but
has it like a dialog...where you can not reselect MAIN until the new
frame is closed.
Is there a simple way to do this?

Can I use my custom cell renderer as a drop target ?
I was hoping to get access to the actual node dropped
on by something like this, instead of using the JTree
and getPathForLocation( x, y)...

I would like to be able to double click on a row in a JTable, which
would brings up a dialog which allows the user to edit some of the
variables associated with the row selected (read: the double clicked row).
I know how to create a JTable, and use it. I also have the dialog code

I have inherited a project that must compile under JDk 1.1.8 and therefore
have no access to Swing components.
The project uses Panels to put buttons on, then, Layout managers to put the
panels such that they look like toolbars into the application.