I'm trying to change my app to create the interface using only the
AWT-EventQueue-0 thread. My problem is that the thread cannot find the
class needed to initialize and I'm not sure how this would be done. I
really need to invoke all this w/ the AWT-EventQueue-0 thread as the

I have a JComponent that displays an image. I set the getPreferredSize() method
to the dimensions of the image, so when I add it to the content pane of a
JDialog, it fits exactly. When I resize the JDialog, I want the image to be
displayed in the exact center of the content pane. ...

I have a JTextField, and I have text in it. For example the string
“example text”.
The user can position the curser in the JTextField for example between p
and l.

I have a JTable with a column that is rendered using a JTextPane-based  
cell-renderer.
On a single click on that column in the JTable, I would like to
determine the text offset of the click in the row under the user click.

I have an applet that I would like to gather the keyboard input once
someone clicks on the JButton. At first I thought that I could just
read System.in, but that provided no solution. I have since found that
to get the input once the JButton has focus it needs to have a

Hi friends,
I can't modify an instance variable of  JPanel_zoom, a subclass of
JPanel I've created from the parent JFrame.
Here is the "interesting" code:

I want to display pdf files from within java
1) I can use getruntime().exec
  BUT I need to know the external pdf viewers name
2) I can use the java viewer from Adobe 1998

I am using JEditor to show html pages i.e. JEditor.setPage(url) method to
show url .
If the html page contains javascript code in it.
Is there any solution to make JEditor script enabled?

I have a jButton with HTML embedded in the label text, and when the
jButton is disabled, the label is not greyed-out in the usual way. How
do I get around this? Below is a code snippet illustrating the
behaviour:

Hey all,
I want the same interface appearance I have now but I just want to make
all the font a bit different and smaller so I installed Synth and have
the following XML defined ...

I let my class implement the FilenameFilter interface and override the boolean
accept(File,String)-method. Even if I let this function return false in every
case, still all files in the directory are displayed. Here is some code:
//open method

My tree cell renderer creates complex cell which contains 3 JLabels.
How do I add mouse listener to one of these labels? By default mouse
event is registered only by the tree, how do I pass this event to
appropriate label?

I'm new to graphics programming and having some trouble adding a button
on-the-fly. I have created an example of my current code below. THere
is a class "TestExtends" that I would like to create and add a button
to it's parent 'WebRezProAppletForm'.

Ok,
there are plenty of discussion on drag and drop on the news net, but
not many that give an example of how to implement re-ordering of JTable
rows using drag & drop.  Could someone point me to a quick overview of

I have a JTable inside a JScrollPanel in the CENTER of a Panel with a
BorderLayout (at the EAST there are some buttons, and the panel is
inside some other panel/box).
How can I do to get this scollpanel/table combo to fit all the