I think I'm running into the JTextArea memory leak bug
(cf. bugs 4203912, 5089193). The bug is reported as fixed,
but definitely still exists in 1.4.2_06. Anyone know
what the status of this is in any of the later 1.4.2

A lot of applications make use of a little "expand" black arrow icon in
toolbars and frames (Firefox, Thunderbird, OO to name a few). I can find
the right pointing arrow (the one used in expanding menus) but not the
one pointing downwards.

Which function returns size of frame object?

 I believe having read in a newsgroup recently a special call
 to find out if it is executed within the event dispatching thread.
 I would know how to get and inspect the name of the current
 thread, but I believe this was a special purpose call for

Many UI's, including Oracle JDeveloper, make use of the menu-style
(rather than combo-style) drop down list in a JToolBar. I have however
been unable to find an example of this. I find that placing a JCombo in
the toolbar looks ugly and inkonsistant with the rest of the toolbar.

Is there any way to know how many classes (JInternalFrame) are instantiated
in a runing program(e.g. Frame)?

RE: Look & Feel Issue
I am running Java 1.4.2_04  on Windows XP
Question.
Is there a way to set my application to be "Windows Classic" style ?

   I'm writing a Swing application in which immediatly under the JFrame, I
have a JTabbedPane. Each tab of the JTabbedPane contains a JPanel with very
different sets of widgets.
   I'd like for the JMenu at the top of the JFrame to change, depending on

The dialog boxes created using JOptionPane like showConfirmDialog,
showInputDialog gets displayed in the centre of the screen. I need to change
its position. How to do this?
These methods return int or none.

I have a problem with the class JFormattedTextField. Maybe someone has
already solved this.
Is there any possibility to restrict the valid characters depending on
the position inside the mask (besides the available distinction

I am having trouble with putting simple GUI on my desktop.
I want to have something like this.
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I've been trying to dynamically re-size a frame, according to what font
I wish to use in it. I first create a new Font () class, with whatever
font I want (in my case, "Monospace". Then I wish to make the frame 80
characters wide, but I am not quite sure how to do this, since the ...

       Maybe I'm someone boring with my questions about way of displaying and
printing content of JPanel, but you must understand that all little tests
of my application don't give the speed I need and, the other thing is, that
examples on Net shows how to display and print ...

I'm new to how to work with actions and views as related to writing
Eclipse plugins using SWT and JFace.
What I am attempting to do is have a tree that creates/updates a view
when a leaf is selected.

I've got a vertical JSplitPane with a JPanel on the top and another
JTabbedPane on the bottom.
Top:
I have a GLCanvas (Java OpenGL Bindings) inside a JTabbedPane which is