I tried posting this in some newsgroups dedicated specifically to
gaming software, but found there was almost no traffic at all.  The
few replies I received were well-intentioned, but didn't really
provide pointers to the kind of software I was seeking.  So, with

I want to write a fullscreen game using active rendering. So far, so
good. I also need to display some Swing components. That is exactly
what my example FullscreenSwingTest (below) does. It switches to
fullscreen mode and displays a white rectange on black background. When

I'm going to start a database app with Java (first: I don't know
anything about Java [YET]) and I've heard some histories about GUIs.
I've read something that Sun originally created AWT, but it's a very
poor GUI, so Sun created Swing, which is very good. But there is also

In my GUI, I bring up a popup dialog by clicking a button. After I
click OK on the popup, it goes away, but sometimes I see parts of my
GUI with white areas. Shouldn't it repaint itself on its own?

Okay...this may be a newbie mistake somewhere involving JTables, but I
am perplexed...
I am making a custom dialog, which uses a custom panel I made, which
loads a large quantity of data into a vector, which is used as the data

I am learning swing and I have an application that requires a message
box that will display information about status of current tasks of many
different modules. The simplest option of course, would be to make all
of the modules aware of the message box and have them write to it. I

I'm going to start a database app with Java (first: I don't know
anything about Java [YET]) and I've heard some histories about GUIs.
I've read something that Sun originally created AWT, but it's a very
poor GUI, so Sun created Swing, which is very good. But there is also

Hi have an ActionListener to my first combo box and inside it I have
somthing like
if (source == firstComboBox)
secondCombo = new

i have an SWT-Gui in which a swing panel is embedded.
Frame awtFrame = SWT_AWT.new_Frame(composite1);
awtFrame.add(swingPanel);
The "swingPanel" containes a lot of components e.g some JComboBoxes.

What happens if I call a function within SwingUtilities.invokeLater and
that function in turn excutes some lines inside of
SwingUtilities.invokeLater. Does this nested invokeLater have any bad
effects?

I sometimes get the following exception in my GUI. It is not always
reproducible, so I don't know when it throws this exception. Any idea
what could be the problem?
java.lang.NullPointerException

Why is it that, when running my GUI program, if i use any other program
or scroll the Console Window associated with it at all, the program
locks down?

I create a modal dialog and show it in my main frame.  When i click OK
or Cancel,  I call a function in my main frame that first makes the
modal dialog invisible and then disposes it.   Funny thing is,  it
keeps popping right back up.   I will post code if necesary but I feel

is there a way in DnD in Java/Swing to have my own image displayed *next* to
the default system cursor during drag and drop operations? I don't want to
replace the complete cursor with my own image and I don't want to use the
default copy or move cursors.

I can't gurantee anything, but I am pretty sure I won't do any swing
development in pure java unless there is a serious requirement to do so.
 Working with jython is just way to easy.  Any thoughts on this?
Adding action classes are easy, working with threads and events are ...