hi friends,
i m using netbeans4.0.
and i want to set one splash image just after executing my code.
but i have two problem. One is i want to display that frame in the middle

IIRC there is a way to get Java to use the full screen.  I expect to be able
to find out how to do that on my own, but there is a more low-level problem I
have in designing the program this is intended for.
I want to be able to scroll the main window by running the mouse to one of ...

I need to resize a font to fit a maximum width.
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There will always be 20 of them (Yes, we are building a dummy terminal
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Running Windows 98 SE and Debian GNU Linux (unstable release) with
2.4.18 kernel.
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2) What are good IDE for each platform?

 I hava java app on mac. It creates an .app on desktop. The newly
created app has .icns file which will display as an icon on desktop.
If I modify the newly created app and change the .icns file, it
doesn't get refreshed on desktop.

I compiled a 'hello world' style java app using Swing's JFrame, and when
packaging it into a .jar file, I got 'error - no main class found' when
running it. I quickly solved this by adding a manifest file specifying
"Main-class = helloworld"

I have the code below in a KeyListener which operates upon a JComboBox
(sorry if the formatting is dire).
I have the problem that if the user is typing into the JComboBox too
quickly, some sort of error occurs and the autofill updates too

  I want to run a swing program in red hat linux 9 but i am not able to
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 I have j2sdk1.4.0_i586 in my linux system.
When i try to run,I am getting the error.

Is it possible to add GUI components to a Hashtable?
tried the following but got an error :
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i want to load a from on button click.
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When I google for "JTable JCheckbox cell" I get thousands of hits but they
do not explain on how to put a JCheckBox into all cells of a column and how
to retrieve the current status (checked/unchecked) from it.
As I understand I have to replace the current DefaultRenderer by

I'm an experienced Java developer with absolutely no GUI experience.  Please
recommend a good Swing book for beginners.  Thanks.

I am trying to write a simple image viewer which will center the image if
the image is smaller than the APPLET size, but otherwise load the image as
the content of a JScrollPane. The code attached works, but has an
unfortunate side-effect which is that the image seems to flicker if ...

How can i keep focus on a certain window over another?
I have a main window, then dialogs etc. I want to disable the main
window when these dialogs appear, exactly in the same what a
JOptionPane does it.

hi to every one,
does anyone know how it would be possible to draw arrow-head lines as well
dotted and dashed lines in java?
regards