I have a JSpinner and want the buttons to be on the left,  not the
right.  Is there a setting for this or will I have build my own
JSpinner to accomplish it?  Thanks
~Doktor

Is there a good reason why anyone would want to add any other Component
other than a JInternalFrame into a JDesktopPane?
Presently, on componentAdded(...) I check for instanceof a
JInternalFrame and if it isn't one then i do not add it.

I'm trying - unsuccessfully - to insert a JMenu in a JTable cell. The
JMenu appears correctly but nothing appends when I click on the arrow
in order to display the menu items.
Is that possible?

Hi all, I've added a key listener to a JPanel, but it wasn't working.
After an hour of changing settings, etc I figured out it was the JFrame
that was receiving the events - so I ended up having to add the key
listener to the JFrame and then have the JFrame invoke the keylistener

i want to hide the input box or change the color of input box so that
it can't be visible .
please tell me how?

Is registering a ComponentListener to a component and its children (a
JDesktopPane and its JInternalFrames) recursively a good way to ensure
that mouseMoved is detected?
Or is there another way? Using glasspane doesn't seem right.

In JLabel, it is possible to use HTML. The HTML can contain hyperlinks.
Is there a way to add a listener to the JLabel so that
(a) whenever user hovers over the hyperlink, the cursor is
   changed into a pointing hand, and

Hi newsgroups!
I have a scrolling-savvy component for viewing a large image
inside a JScrollPane. The JScrollPane reacts to the cursor keys
(Up, Down, PageUp, PageDown, Home, End, ...), so that I am able

Did anybody managed to use the jCalendar swing bean ( from toedter.com
) in a jTable ?
I posted a question on their website, with no answer so far...
By the way, I googled for a free Time Picker javabean ( or Time

I've got a short question which is bugging me for a long time:
fireTableRowsUpdated(firstrow, lastrow) is a function of
AbstractTableModel, it notifies the View when a row is updated. It
accepts 2 parameters, firstrow and lastrow.

It is very easy to bring up a JPopupMenu when the user clicks on a
JButton using JPopupMenu.show(...) method.
However, I couldn't hide the JPopupMenu when the user clicks on the
JButton again.

I want to trasform a java.awt.Image realized from a Component using
PixelGrabber, but I always have a
NullPointerException. How can I doin in order to avoid it?
This is the code:

I'm learning how to build GUIs in Java and am transitioning from Qt for
a project. I was wondering if something equivalent to the QToolBox
widget exists in Java.
Here's what the QToolBox does :

[Tried posting in clj.beans, but that seems to be rather quiet and I now
realise that the query is more GUI oriented anyway. Apologies if you
have seen it before.]
I have a drop-down box (Combo) which is used to select between several

I have a JMenu entitled "New Article", which may or may not have child
JMenuItems to create prepopulated articles of certain types. The user
still needs to be able to select "New Article" to go into a Wizard to
create an article.