For JLists and Jtables, you can have for example Integers as data, a renderer who render a text from the Integer, and when the user select an item, you know wich Integer have been selected.
But what about JMenuItem ? There is no renderer from what i've saw... I've tried to keep a ...

hi, the end of my tool tip dissapears when it reaches a JTextArea that i
have. But if i have a button there instead of the JTextArea it just keeps
on displaying over that. Can anyone tell why this is and maybe a suggestion
to solve this. Thanks very much.

I have a JTable to display results of search from a collection within a
program.
Displaying searched results are fine, however, when I clicked on a
displayed row, previous searched row is presented.

I need to draw a dotted line, but have to support JDK 1.1 (don't ask why, I
have protested against this to my bosses on many occasion!)
Anyway, I have a 1.2 enables class that does the dots and thick line drawing
if a 2D enables graphics object is available, but, my math is not ...

I need to remove a node from a JTree object (node may or may not be
selected, does not matter). I can scan the tree nodes. Once I find the
node and it satisfies my if, I need to remove it from the tree.  Can't
seem to have the right objects so I can remove it. Any one have any

I'm doing UI testing for a small startup.
Does anyone have any books they can recommend?
Is there maybe an outline somewhere on the web of how this sort of thing
should go down?

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I have designed a frame which contains a TextArea ,TextField and a
JButton.

I have a JTabbedPane with 4 Panes.  Each Pane has several panels.
Each panel has several JTextFields.  On the last Pane in the bottom
panel, I have a JButton that basically starts a process for the GUI
client.

When I call repaint() the whole canvas is repainted.  However, during games
programming there may be instances where only one object is animated across
the canvas (for example a ball bouncing across the screen).  In this case,
it would seem more efficient if the background were not ...