A user may launch several processes from my my Swing GUI using JFileChooser.
Right now my quit button only exits the application itself without killing
off any spawned processes
   // create a Quit Button

Ive only just started programming in Java and am a bit
confused by the layout tools.
What I want to do is create a frame with three panels
in it. I should look like:

I have a JDesktopPane added to a JTabbedPane.
JDesktopPane.setComponentPopupMenu and JTabbedPane.setComponentPopupMenu
are both set to their respective JPopupMenu.
The problem is that when i right click on the JDesktopPane the

 I am trying to create a simple program that fades a window or dialog
into view showing some text and then fade out again. Kind of like that
email notifier in Win XP. I am using the AlphaComposite class and
things are looking good except for when the program starts. For a split

Salve a tutti, scrivo per chiedere un'opinione su un metodo
per la creazione di applicazioni GUI. L'idea è ancora un pò
"acerba", nel caso il post contenesse imprecisioni o inesatezze
segnalatamelo. Ringrazio fin d'ora chiunque voglia fare critiche

I am developing an application with swing-gui. It is indented to be run on
touch-screen systems (to be touched with fingers, not a pen-like device).
The Problem is, that when I insert a JScrollPane for some larger
components, the scrollbars are way to small to be operated with a ...

For a JPopupMenu that has a JRadioButtonMenuItem that is
selected/unselected based on XXX.isYYYEnabled().
There are two ways:
1) Listen for the state and update the JRadioButtonMenuItem

I have a JScrollPane that sits inside a JPanel which goes inside
another JPanel and makes up the left side of a JSplitPane.
JScrollPane->JPanel->JPanel->JSplitPane
My problem is that when I initialize the JScrollPane, it only has one

Preferably free and Eclipse compatible.
Also generally is the resultant code fairly clean these days.  GUI Builders
I've used in the past (for C++) have generated pretty poor code.
TIA,

I'm wondering if there is any way of getting OS's default icon for the
file of a given content-type? I know that there is a method which
retrieves an icon for a given java.io.File, but couldn't find any way
for getting the icon when only content-type is known.

I have a popup menu with JCheckBoxMenuItem's as a submenu. I'd like to
know how to toggle the checkbox's within the submenu w/o the entire
menu going away.
Any help much appreciated.

I cannot get even a simple HelloWorld Applet to display on my firefox
or IE if I am the one who coded it.  I know it's not my Java code
because i even tried putting other example applets on my page and they
still won't appear.  this is driving me absolutely nuts.

Hey all,
I want the same interface appearance I have now, which is the Metal
LaF, but I just want to make the fonts different. Same style, smaller
fonts. I installed Synth and have the following XML defined ...

I am trying to enable a JButton through the use of a hot key,  I do not
want the button to be visible until a keystroke is made (Ex: Alt+E).
If I do button.setMnemonic(etc.), and then button.setVisible(false),
the hot key no longer works.

Here where I am... I overrided the createRootPane() as follows
<code>
protected JRootPane createRootPane()
{