I am encountering a very strange situation under jdk 1.4. In the
mousePressed method for a JButton, I requestFocus to a JTextField. Once
in a while I'm finding that upon exiting the method, the focus owner is
null and the permanent focus owner is the textfield. At that point

My java application (JFrame) uses a SplashSceen (Window) which is set to be
"Always on Top". If there is some error in supplying command line parameters
to the application, then the application displays an error using JOtionPane.
But the problem is that the error dipslayed gets hide ...

In my multiply document application, I wish to have a right-most toolbar
button act as the close button for the currently active document/view.
Is there any facility in the Swing API that allows me to come up wich
such a button which is platform-dependent. I prefer not to make up ...

i m facing a problem while running my java application on mac ( OSX )
through applet viewer or through browser. The menus of the frame inside
my application are not showing like a mac menu(on the top).  I'm using
jre1.5 and safari as browser.

I need a calander front-end for a java application, whereby users can
select dates and pre-programmed activites for such dates.
This would then be read by another Java app to construct an overall
chart of users/activites (like a gantt chart)

  Why the JTextField.requestFocus() doesn't work, but it works after
JDialog.pack()? why?
thanks
from Peter (cmk128@hotmail.com)

I maintain a large, somewhat complicated application in which strange
behavior is being exhibited.
The behaviour has to do with JSlider actions which control
characteristics of a map (e.g. "+" increase, "-" decrease, "z" zoom out)

I am trying to add an icon to the leafs of my tree which contains the
text "F4" like in the tutorial of sun. To do that i overwrote the
getTreeCellRendererComponent-methode of the DefaultTreeCellRenderer as
below:

I need to connect my GUI program with a terminal in Linux (command
line). The task is to input inside a textField the command to exectue as
for exemple: "ls -al" or "gcc whatever.c -o whatever" but everything
must be done by a GUI program.

i'm facing the following problem: i would like to set the value of a JSlider without firing event. The reason is that i don't really know the number of listeners (the number can change), and the way they react.
All the listeners are part of a dialog wich must synchronize all the ...

I tried to find, for a few times, the page or newsgroup to
I discuss hot to optimize a printing of a few page large JPanel which
contains JTree, JTable and 2DGraphics.
I tried everything I found on Net.  Some java examples contains enables or

Why I can't 'add a window to a container'?
Please see the code-
import java.awt.*;
public final class SplashScreen extends Frame {

Look what found, free grid java applet !
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http://www.alfabdi.com/alfabdi/html/superGrid.html
Regards,

I have had a request to extend my JDisplay Applet which paints program
listings in colours to let you copy/paste from the canvas without
reverting to a black and white TextArea as it does now.
I have not yet looked into this. It seems to me copy/paste is a peer

are there techniques for updating graphs in real-time appending new
lines?