I m working on a GUI app. which uses Indian langage input methods, in
short it makes use of Unicode.
I run the app with the following command line
java -Dfile.encoding="UTF-8" package.myClass

The dialogs created with JOptionPane are modal dialogs
and each showXxxDialog method of JOptionPane blocks the
current thread until the user's interaction is complete.
But how to make them to be always on top of the owner?

  I need to switch from JTextArea to JTextPane b/c need to change font
color according to user input, but am running into all sorts of
problems..  you can't specify a size in rows and columns like you can in
JTextArea, setSize() is being ignored..  also why no append() method in ...

I've extended a JTextPane to preserve tabindex and implement block-
indentation. It is supposed to work much like a code editor. Check out the
resulting applet, rigged up for Firefox only, over at:
   <url:http://www.wunderbyte.com/editorapplet>

I want to use JComboBox to enabe user to select from a list of images.
I also want that after the selection is made, only the name associated
to the image is shown at JComboBox text field part(next to the button,
or the button itself if the combo box is uneditable).

setSiz() is ignored...
JButton btn = new JButton("OK");
 public void init() {
getContentPane().add(btn);

splitPane.addComponentListener(new ComponentAdapter() {
    public void componentShown(ComponentEvent evt) {
        System.out.println("This won't get printed");
    }

I have a hanging indent requirement for paragraph formatting:
<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/swing/text/StyleConstants.html#Fir
stLineIndent>
"The amount of space to indent the first line of the paragraph. This value
may be negative to offset in the reverse direction. ...

ich suche ein Tool mit dem ich eine Benutzeroberfläche zusammenstellen kann,
ohne dabei Ahnung von Java haben zu müssen. Es geht nur darum eine
funktionslose GUI  zu erstellen.
Kennt jemand von euch ein Tool, mit dem das einfach möglich ist ohne gleich

Hi Im new to Swing (and a lot  other Java things to be honest) s would be
grateful for any assistance.
Im writing an app that is MDI based  Ive got an JFrame MDI into which I have
a menu bar and menu items etc and a status bar (a JPanel attached to SOUTH)

how do you dynamically get rid of text in a TextArea?
(no way of doing what in JS you would do like this
      textArea.value = "";  ???
thank you..

Do you know if it is possible to get the value of a hash back from a
JTree?
ex:
hash {

MouseDown() and MouseUp() are deprecated; both have been replaced by
processMouseEvent()... how can this be?  (two diff. methods replaced by
same method..)
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/Component.html#mouseDown(java.a
wt.Event,%20int,%20int)

I am a newbie to GUI programming and I was hoping someone could help
me.
I have a JFrame app that does not repaint when I log out (and then in)
of my Windows machine until I minimize and restore the GUI. Is there a

Is SWT (from Eclipse) not meant for cross-platform app distribution and
JavaWebStart?
I noticed when packing my application in a .jar file and trying to run
it, I got a link error requesting swt-win32-3138 (apparently some DLL).