I'm setting up a new PC with a brand-new installation of Windows XP and
Fedora Core 3 (each with all the latest updates).
I'm having trouble with the Java plug-in: it won't load any applets
from the Internet (from the local filesystem works fine). I'm behind a

I am using html to create a multiline JButton, which works fine, but
when i disable the jbutton, the text is still the same color (it is not
faded), however, the Jbutton does become disabled.
anyone else run into this problem?

I have developed a graphical interface extended from java.awt.Component.  It
is drawn using Graphics2D objects, and is nicely interactive.
When the interface is placed in a JPanel, which is placed in a JFrame,
everything works great.  My interface checks the its size, and calculates

I am trying to integrate skinLF in my application, and I have it
loading, and everything is working, except for the fact that i can't
seem to get the LF to change for all open windows.
Lets say for example, I have a main dialog (which a combo box where the

Also, does anyone know of a set of freely available classes for
interacting with directed acyclic graphs?  Ideally, I'd be able to
specify boxes & connections.  The objects would come up with a default
layout, and the user would be able to click & drag boxes around, with

Does anyone know of a decent set of freely available classes for
managing dockable windows via Swing?  Googling found a few mediocre
commercial offerings.  What does Eclipse use?
Thanks in advance,

his is my code, I need a JTextArea on JTree nodes. someone can help me?
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.tree.*;
import java.awt.*;

I have this Table (from SWT) with three columns. Because the lines in
the latter column can be very long, I need some sort of wrapping. I
found a solution with "line.separator" or just "\n", But as far as I
know that's not automagically wrapping the text when resizing the

Thanks in advance,
I'm trying to put a JCheckBox (and will add listener to it) into a JTable cell.
Can someone take a look at this and tell me where I'm going wrong?
import java.awt.*;

Accoding to cljg FAQ revision 1.17, Java on Mac OS X
can make a Window with a background color which has
alpha element as well as normal RGB elements.
If we couldn't tweak on other platform to get

What is difference between JApplet and Applet?

I'm trying to use XMLEncoder for the first time. My need is to persist a
PlainDocument to a file. Here is the code I'm using to do this:
       ContentDocument content = ...; // where ContentDocument extends
PlainDocument and gets initialized with some text

I want to change my tree around and I have the following questions
about a JTree?
- Can a JTree can have several root nodes?
- Can a JTree have several TreeModel's for each root node?

According to the API, getParentDirectory(File dir) returns the parent
directory of dir. Does this mean that if I look for a filename "dir", it
will return the name of the directory in which the file is?
Thanks

I'm trying to figure out how to tell the system that I don't want a
particular JLabel to paint when someone presses the alt key in my app.
I think it has to do with mnemonics, but I've set my jlabel to have no
mnemonic (setDisplayedMnemonicIndex(-1) which was already the default).