as an exercise, i am writing a simple text editor.
i have attached a JTextArea component to a JPanel component, and then
added this to a JFrame.
my problem is, when i resize the JFrame (by clicking on Maximise

My application shows the Graphics2D in a JPanel. It shows and print diagram.
I use class which extends JPanel implements Printable, on a classic, from
example, way.
It is usually 4 A4 papers big and it needs approx. 10MB/page. But sometimes

Is it possible to re-engineer an existing app that now statically creates a
PrintWriter and  outputs System.out to it with output_.println() to go to a
scrollable GUI component?  I believe not b/c no Swing app would have the
println method and I dont see how you to force it; however ...

Hi friends,
I am very new to Java.. I've created a notepad kind of editor.. I want to
add a functionality of block selection using mouse.. Is any body who can
help me...?

I am drawing a schematic using Java2D and want to print it.  I want to
print it 3 pages wide by 3 pages long,  so I translate the 2D graphics
object with in relation to the current pageIndex.   It prints all 9
pages,  but they all have their own "section" of the schematic as well

I have a dialog that pops up when I click on a button in my GUI. If I
resize the popup dialog, then close it, then click on the button again,
I want the dialog to remember the resize I did. How can I do this?

I have homemade buttons (Extended JLabels with MouseListeners) in
columns 0 and 2 on a JTable.  They work fine,  except that when i first
click on them,  that cell gets focus and i have to click them a SECOND
time to get the mouse event to fire.  Is there a function dealing with

For the last week I've been tracking down a problem that has absolutely
made me
crazy. My program is a near real time GUI that monitors a piece of
audio equipment.

I would like to draw a string to a panel using the Graphics object (g) i.e
g.drawString("Test",150,150); but I would like to be able to wrap a long
string around the width of the panel (a bit like a word processor would).
For this, I need a fix sized font where all the characters ...

Is it possible to put a checkbox into a JTable header?
The idea is to have a column of checkboxes, and also a checkbox
in the header.  Checking the one in the header causes all the
ones in the column to also become checked.

We are migrating applets from jdk 1.3.1 to 1.4.2. For one of the
applets, a certain sequence of actions involving clicking JTextFields,
entering info and clicking buttons results in two blinking cursors
being displayed. During input I even saw 3 blinking cursors. This did

barray - contains byte[] array of the PNG image
image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(barray);
MediaTracker t = new MediaTracker(this);
t.addImage(image, 0);

I wrote a text editing applet using a JTextArea or a JTextPane
(depending on what the user wants to write) and until now, all worked
fine (I work in Linux and Windows environment). But last day, I was
asking why the copy/paste didn't work under MacOS.

Is there a way of making a JTextField -not- select all the text when
double-clicked? I'd like to make it just place the caret in the correct
place.  Has anyone any pointers?

Is anyone aware of where I might obtain a "3 state" listbox, as opposed to
the two-state JList? Something that might allow things to be a second color
if they are selected, say, by right-clicking? Thanks, Ike