I have looked high and low and cannot find a way to duplicate
the Windows mouse cursor with the pointer and hourglass in
a Swing GUI.  I just don't see it anywhere in there.
There are times in our application when we want to indicate to the

 public void hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent he) {
   URL sURL = he.getURL();
   sURL = sURL.toString();       
   sURL = sURL.trim().toLowerCase();

I want to write my own editor (don't shoot I know there are good etitors) .
Can somebody give me a hint which component I can use for my editor for
example JPanel, JTextArea or ???.
John

I need to show some kind of popup when our applet is accessed
unlicensed.  This window should not be sizable, closeable, and most
importantly, should always come to the front when the browser
containing the applet is selected.

I've a AFAIK Java application (Maple 10) on a Linux 2.6 box with locale
setting de_DE.UTF-8.
Everything works fine, I can enter the German umlauts (üöä) but not the sign
^ (for calculating the power of number, like 2^4 = 16). Also with a unset

i want to create a custom component with a text field and a button. i'm
using netbeans IDE.when i place it to a container and resize the
component, i want the text field to be resized accordingly. how would i
do that. please help

I want to use an AbstractAction as the basis for some Action classes in
a Swing app, but I want the text of the action's name to be different
for JButtons than it is for JMenuItems.
Is there any way to do this, or do I need to have two separate Action