How do i make a string containing different colors. For example
String s = "This is red, this yellow" must display red in the color red and
yellow in the color yellow;
John

i have a JTable with 2 columns. The first column is "static". But i want to enable the user to select the value of the 2nd column from a ComboBox editor. The thing is that the combo box items depends on the first column (for a row).
So:
- i can't use:
 jTable ...

I have implemented the TreeCellRenderer, such that each node in
my JTree has a checkbox and a label in a JPanel.
Now I am creating a mouse listener for the tree. I can get the
name of the node using TreePath.getLastPathComponent(). But how can

I'm using the UndoManager to undo/redo the input of a user to a form
with multiple JTextFields. The standard UndoableEdit's produced by the
JTextFields are one character at a time however and I would like to
change this behavior so that multiple characters can be undone/redone

hi firends,
i am creating GUI in java using netbeans. and i want to change th shape of
JButton to be a circle. Is it possible to do that. pls reply as soon as
possible

After migrating from 1.4 to 1.5, I notice that
   UIManager.get("OptionPane.errorIcon");
returns different objects depending on the look-and-feel.
In the default LAF it returns an IconUIResource object.

I am writing a program to store stuff to xml using the storeToXML method
but I can;t get it to compile here it is; any ideas?
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

Sorry if ive asked this b4, buts its really frustrating me...
I have two JDialogs. They're actually two classes which extend JDialog.
I.E. Wizard extends JDialog.
My main screen calls each JDialog.

i know that this is a question that comes up very often - but i have never
found a complete working modifiable example, therefore i am posting this
question here again:
right now i am working on an online paint-program as java applet (where you

I can't seem to get my jscrollpane to autoresize itself. Here's some of the
code that I'm using.
JViewport vp = new JViewport();
vp.setView(checkOutTable.getTableHeader());

I'm probably going to have need soon of a way to open user-selected
files with an appropriate app.  In Windows and Mac OS X, I've long ago
worked out how to do this.  But the problem is different in Linux, in
large part because I'm not familiar with the workings of various window ...

 Hi ...
Here's a little strange problem and i don't know whether it can be
solved in Java...
The situation is that am making an IRC client and i need the visible

i have 3 textfields in my frame and the strings which i am setting in them
are longer than their widths,  when the frame is made visible ,i am able to
see the rightmost part of the strings,but i want to dislay the string from
the left end.

I am quite new to java so this question is probably easy :)
Please help
I have a frame that holds north center and south panels
-norht panel has a JComboBox

How do I show a JCombobox always display the selected item as the
first selection. For example you have the following list
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