With a Jtable, how can i disable the selectionBackGroundColor and
instead, have a white outline around the entire row (not around each
cell in that row)?
i have been struggling with this for a several hours and would

 I was hoping somebody could provide a pointer for this problem:
I have a command line program that needs to create a JPanel an JFrame.
However it does not show these widgets, but simply draws something onto
them and creates an image from it. So the user does not see any GUI

I have written a simple application to display TIFF files which are
600dpi scanned images of typical 8 1/2 x 11" documents.  Additionally,
I had 2 other programmers write their own implementations of the above.
The 3 programs have something in common: they all suck.  The look of

How to change the color of the editor in a JComboBox component ?
John

Thanks for your posts.
1. Here is the example of valid use (from the API docs):
String inputValue = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please input a value");
2. Use of the EDT to achieve this (for JInternalFrames here) can be seen in:

Just wondering if anyone has experienced any strange behavior with .gif
or .jpg image files that are loaded when using Webstart.
If the application is run from within Eclipse or via the command line,
the images are loaded fine. Yet when run from Webstart, the images are

Wondering if anyone has any good/clever ideas how to easily implement a
JMenu with JMenuItems that appear to have 2 columned text, i.e.:
+-----------------------------+

hi *
i want that the Title of the Gui is the Title of the opened File.
if i opened a new File , the Title must be  refreshed.
any idea .

i have a question that has been around for sometime now, and i guess it has
to do with the operating system,
i'm running windows XP service pack 2. Anyways, the problem that i'm having
is with the JTabbedPane. When u select a

I'm trying to solve this problem:
I have an aplication consisting of Swing GUI components and action objects
(extend AbstractAction). I need to access my Swing components from the
actions (e.g. update button status). What is the common way to make those

We have an application that loads image (1392 * 1040) into a scroll
pane of 640 * 480 viewport. The user can click on a spot/point then
press the arrow keys to move the spot to different directions.
Each key pressed is supposed to move 1 pixel at a time but the knob in

I am hoping that someone on this list can set me straight !!
I have an app (below) that calls a class containing a Swing JFrame.  My
understanding is that swing starts its own java thread (which explains the
issue i am seeing).