I have a JTree with TreeNodes ...
I have 2 type of objects added to the Tree as nodes ... a category
TreeNode and a Product TreeNode
The Product Object has a CODE memnber and a NAME member ;the

hopefully somebody can help my on these:
1. If I set a glass pane on a JIF, this pane only seems to cover the content
area of the JIF (by setting setOpaque(true) this can be seen). So the header
of the JIF isn't covered by the glass pane. Is there a way to cover the

after searching the web for many hours for a solution to make
JInternalFrames act like modal dialogs and trying lots of different
aproaches I finally created this (simple) solution.
Since many out there seem to have similar problems and are searching for a

If I have a JTree that has a TreePath where one of the nodes on that
TreePath has very many elements, I have found that the makeVisible() method

TreePath tp;

I have a class that extends a jframe with some additional private
fields. It also has an inner class that extends SwingWorker and some
inner classes that are action listeners.
I was wondering if it is safe to write to a (private) field from the

I need a good JAVA IDE with an integrated SWING designer.  Eg. build
the interface for the app. like the forms designer for Visual Studio
.net.  Most the IDEs I have seen appear to be more code or web
interface based and do not handle Swing too well.

I just had to downgrade to 1.4 and now I'm missing
JInternalFrame.getMousePosition().
I tried to add a MouseMotionAdapter to my JInternalFrame which stores the
mouse coordinates for me. The problem is, that the listener is not called

I am trying to implement a text editor in Java, but dont want the
jeditorpane to text wrap by default, however i need to use a jeditorpane or
textpane in order to do text highlighting, is there anyway i can turn off
text wrapping all together i.e so people can write an entire ...

I got a TabbedPanel which uses the default key assignments.
I like to disable them, or change some of them but how to do?
I got a look to mneomics, but seemed to be wrong.
google wasn't also able to gave me hints, so I am on

just wondering if this is a known problem:
I have to set JComboBox.setLightWeightPopupEnabled(false) due to the
constellation of my framework.
Now the scrollbar of the combo won't be updated as long as the box is

Hi all,
I'm coding a graphical interface for small screen touchscreen PC composed of
menus and submenus. As the look of it must be fancy, there is a background
image.

I'm just trying to figure out why this happens as I haven't done
anything to set the focus or tab order in my forms.
My problem is when I click in one of my edit fields which is in a panel
of a JTabbedPane (so then I'm guessing that means the focus is there

I have a 3D canvas inside a JPanel which is inside one of my tabs of a
JTabbedPane. My problem is that when I press the 'CTRL' + 'UP' arrow
when the focus is on the canvas, the focus then moves from the canvas to
the tab of my JTabbedPane and I don't want this.

Hi, (sorry for X-Post, didn't see this NG before previous post)
We have an applet that MUST support jvm 1.1 (MS JVM also).
I want to plot some lines, and the selected line needs to be two points
thick.

I have a simple Panel, that I add a set of other panels to dynamically..
I have a combo box that contains a list. Selecting an item forces a new
panel to be added below.
When I do this, the panel that is added does not display until I resize the