First, I want to thank Michael Dunn for his answer to my last
 question!
 A user can reorder the columns of a JTable; and he can change
 their width. Now, I am about to write code to serialize these

is there a satndard way to layout the buttons "OK" and "Cancel" for java programs? I'm asking because java already ask to use some defined icons if possible.
I generally put "OK" to the left and "Cancel" to the right. Is this "the" way?
TIA

I'm trying to update a JTree after it's already been created, so after
a few operations, I add more nodes to my root node and would like to
update it in my scrollpane. My problem is, when I add nodes to it, I
don't know how to make it visually update.

this is syntax for constructor:
Font(String name, int style, int size)
so how do you do BOLD AND ITALIC?  obviously this gives me an error..
    label.setFont(new Font("Arial", Font.BOLD, Font.ITALIC, 22));

All,
I recall some issue, at some point in my java programming career, where
subclassing a gui class (e.g. JFrame) and over-riding paint() didn't work as
intended, but over-riding paintComponent() did (or vice versa).

The layout-manager helps you to put all the components where you want, and
give them the initial size.
But users could drag the frame of the components freely, so how could I
"save" the drag-result? I mean, when

Below, I believe, is a quite standard JSpinner creation
with a date model. However, spinner's arrow buttons are
irresponsive and the display of the date doesn't spin.
What could be the cause and the soultion for the problem?

Im trying to have a new row added to a JTable when the previous row has
been filled in...
Ive tried to override
"public void tableChanged(TableModelEvent e)"

I'm playing around with a JList and would like the scroll window to move to a
specific index at start-up. I thought that ensureIndexIsVisible might do the
trick, but it seems not to. It happens for example when I show 5 elements, the
number of elements is 11 and the selected ...

I have the following problem, that I try to resolve unsuccessfully
for some time:
I have a JTextPane in a JScrollPane.  When I use setText() to update
the text in, the JTextPane gets scrolled to the end (last line).

I'm playing a bit with JButton aspect.
I've seen several beautiful buttons in some java L&F and am trying to
subclass only the JButton class in order to keep my original L&F but
only have SOME buttons with a different "style".

I know I have asked lot about this here, but I'm baffled by how hard
this is..  I've been doing layouts w/HTML and css for years, and never
have a problem getting my stuff to look exactly as I want it to, even
complex layouts..  but Swing layouts is just a different league....;)

I am trying to draw a string onto an image as smoothly as possible.
The problem is that I am streching the font a little to fit my area fully..
AffineTransform fontTransform = new AffineTransform();
fontTransform.scale( xScale , yScale);

It's great to be able to isolate UI events into Swing actions so the
same action is called from a menu, toolbar and/or shortcut. But what is
its relevance to the MVC-pattern. I have isolated all UI actions of my
app in a single ActionFactory class, but I am simple unsure about ...

 I am using Java 1.5 and have written a Swing-application,
 which will "crash" when its main window is closed. Under
 Windows 98 the JVM does not terminate in this case and even
 CTRL-ALT-DEL will not bring up the task manager anymore to