I work on a Java Paint application and I have a problem vith outlining. I
use Menu items and Canvas and the problem is in the drawing position. I
can`t get Menu items on first place and then Canvas behind.

   when creating another mdi child, how do I check if it's already open?
   In vb, I'd iterate through all the windows and grab the window title,
and compare that to the one I'm about to create. If it matches an existing
window, I'd just set the focus to it.

 whats the best way to create a global reference to the desk top pane.
I have an mdi application that adds many jinternalframe windows to the
desktop (nested many levels) - what's the easiest way to get a reference to
the desktop. (now I'm passing the deskop  as a parameter to ...

Is there a way to squeeze the tabs closer together in a JTabbedPane?  I
noticed there is some free space in the tab itself to the right of the
text in the tab.  Don't want to overhaul the look of the GUI. Just want
to move the tabs closer together.  An option I thought of, don't ...

I have found Roy Ratcliffe's SplashWindow example in several places on the
net.  The following pdf file:
 http://www.randelshofer.ch/oop/javasplash/Java%20Splash%20Screen.pdf
is a report by Mr. Ratcliffe with many details on performance measurements,

I have a panel that contains four buttons. This panel has
to be rotated (together with the buttons). After the rotation I cannot
detect the click on the correct button,  the event is detected on the
button that would be on the click position without the rotation. Even

How to scale only one graphical component which is mixed with all other
components?
I tried:
       Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;

I want to have a widget horizontally centered with another one to its
right in a panel. I don't know how I could obtain this effect.
Everything I can think of would result in the left widget pushed to the
left by the right widget.

I really need someone to show me the way. My Problem is a printing a big
gantt wich can be very large (20 pages or more).
- first problem is java.lang.outofmemory. I really don't know howe to tell
to my users that my application can draw only 20 pages of diagram (or less,

I think I have a fairly common problem, any advice would be greatly
helpful.
I have written a JApplet with NetBeans 4.1 (the entire program - only
about 50 lines - consists of only one class). When I click the START

I am trying to build my first form and I am not able to find out how to
make the keytab work.
Find below my source code
Thank you

I open a new JDialog to allow the user to have some choices.  How do i
make it so that they cannot bury this dialog nor can they edit any
other frame until they hit OK or Cancel.   Example of what i want to
do,  the FileChooser doesn't let you do anything else until you cancel

I understand that every gui has a corresponding model.
public class PersonGui {
    public PersonGui(Person model) {
        ...

it seems that applets running under 1.4.x VM's can not paste from their
system clip boards into JTextArea's, but 1.5.x VM's can. anyone know why
this is? was this a new feature of 1.5? i thought that all copy and
pasting was not permitted due to security constraints enforced by ...

I want to display the progress of a task to the user. The task happen in
a non gui class of my application which simply update a currentProgress
attribute which I want the Progress Bar class to check every second and
update the bar.