I'm working on a program for a class assignment and ran into a problem.  The program is essentially finished, I just need to add one additional feature to it.  The program is split up into two classes: one that handles creating the GUI (MortgageDisplay) and the other that ...

When I use a highlighter in a JTextPane, the font color is not setting as
say in AttributeSet.
I use java 1.4.2_08 on Mandrake 10.0.
How is it possible to use both higlighter and font color ?

im using Java 1.5, and Im trying to set the cursor to a wait or a hand
cursor while my application is "working".  I have
myjframe.setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.WAIT_CURSOR));
which does compile without deprecation, however it does not effectively

I've hit a point in my app when I first call .validate() when loading a
new panel (it is fairly complex), it takes up to 5 seconds to load..
There must be something I can do to get over this and was wondering if
anyone had any ideas, if you are interested then my App flows like ...

Hi
Have a general question about  classes contained by JApplet.
There is a class which arranges its components lay out and their behaviour
(in answer for the exteranl, user's actions-> it sets the values of this

Is there a java class that I can use to retrieve information about the
current system total available physical memory?

I have  a JList in a panel next to(to the right) some textfields/buttons
in another panel.  I'm using the gridbaglayout.  When I'd add data to
the Jlist the Jlist would resize about 100 pixels I guess and would
squeeze the textfields/buttons in the adjacent panel  into a smaller

How can I have a JDialog that pops up NOT have a title bar?
Thanks,
the doktor

I would like to use a Knob, but considering the fact that I am not very
able with graphic, if it's possible, I would like to find something
existing...:)
Does anybody can suggest me where can I find the source of a simple

Is there an easy way to set up a streaming swing console?  (Scrollbars &
read-only clipboard access would be nice.)
I want to be able to set up a text window to act as an output console for my
Swing application.  This application is hidden under something else that

I have two problems with adding pictures to a JPanel.
Unfortunately if the amount of pictures I want to add is too high, it takes
a long time until my application goes on.
It waits until all pictures are loaded with a complete grey screen instead

Anyone has sample code or ideas on how I could do this where I can
populate a JList, and user can reorder each item by highlighting it,
then clicking on Up/Down buttons?  Thanks.

Help,
I'm trying to add a JScrollPane to the JFrame contentPane. But its not
limiting the size of the whole windows despite my various calls to
(setBounds, setMaximumSize, setViewSize, setSize) limit the size. It

I have a JFrame, which contains a JPanel and a JTextPane separated by a
JSplitPane.
The outer JFrame implements KeyListener, and whenever that JFrame or any of the
components within it have focus, I want the JFrame's Keylistener to process the

I have a Jtextfield in the GUI. I want it to be left aligned and always
the start of the text to be visible. But I see that when the text
length is smaller than the Jtextfield width, the text is correctly left
aligned and whole text is visible.