I want to be able to enable / disable the automatic scrolling performed when
adding text to a JTextPane. A JScrollPane has a viewport set to the
textpane. The text is added within a thread invoked using
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(...). Only the automatic scrolling should be

Hi, I the following problem with a JCombobox editor in JTable.
I want the first keystroke in the JTable to be passed in the Editor of
the JCombobox. In JTable, the following code handles the keyboard
events:

Is it possible to hava a PopupMenu on a JMenuItem ?
I have been able to capture right click events and create the
PopupMenu, but I have the following problem: The Menu containing the
MenuItem dissappears.  I need to keep the Menu and selected MenuItem in

I've just downloaded and installed Eclipse 3.1RC3 and would like to use
the Visual Editor as well, however when I install the latest VE it is
looking for an older swt release. How can I get these synchronized so I
can use SWT, Visual Editor and the latest Eclipse release?

I have the following problem
I Have to represent the 24 hours in a "grid". with 2 rows. The first
row contain the Hours o'clock, and the second row the half hours.
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I've a JPanel with a GridLayout layout.
In each cell I've another JPanel Inside. When I select a panel (the
internal panel) I would like to know the coordinates of the external
panel. e.g. I would like to know if the panel I selected with the mouse

Hi all! It seems this is a good forum to post my question. It's not
difficult and I don't ask for code as I'd like to play about with a
problem for some time myself. However, perhaps you guys could help me
with answering three general questions.

Here's a snippet I took of a Java SWING developers blog:
<snip>
You try telling your users that they need to upgrade to >2Gb of memory
when all they want to run is 5 or so Java GUIs of only moderate

I'm having a problem with drawImage.
What I'm doing is making a simple class that is extends a Panel (did it
with Canvas with same result) and I call this class Picture.
An Image object can be passed into the Picture object and then on paint

I have a JTable, which has in column 1-3 comboboxes. The JTable has a
model. I get the values in the combobox from a database.
Now my question: Is it possible to fill up the comboboxes (addItem) in
the tableModel, or do I have to write a combobox model?

I am writing a swing program which basically writes the content of a
text area when a button is pressed, it seems to me the code is correct
but i get the following exception at when i press the button execute.
The code follows the error snippet, look into TextInputPanel class for

Hello,
sometimes I need to display objects with rather long
names in the JTree. Unfortunately my strings are abbreviated
and "..." is appended. My TreeCellRenderer is based

I am using NetBeans 4.1 to design a small Swing application. Recently I
developed my own component by subclassing from JPanel. I have
successfully added this component to some of my dialogs and it displays
correctly in the visual editor design canvas. However I am unable to

I'm using Eclipse to build a Java GUI (using JFC/Swing).  I have a Jtable
that is part of a jPanel.  However when my window resizes the table stays a
constant size.  How can I resize the jTable as the window size changes?
Thanks

first of all ... sorry for the noob question !!!
Is there a way to put an background image in the Jtoolbar and JToolmenu?
I am new in java but old (jurassic old) in VB and VFP.
There, in the activeX, sometimes I can chose a background image for the