I am writing an application and I would like to give the user the
option of choosing Look and Feel.
The look and feels that are part of standard java is not that exciting
so I would like to give the user the option of "installing" new look

I'm working on an application that will monitor the status of servers
in my LDAP environments displaying the servers in a tree view grouped
by tree name.  During a thread's connection check to see if the server
is responding, if the result is an error in connection, the thread

I have this code....
JTree myTree;
...omissis...
myTree.addMouseMotionListener(this);

I'm looking for a class that can implement a method for lauching files
throught an applet button.
I know the file class exists but it doesn't have the methods with the
functionality i want.

Im working with an extended jtable, in the constructor, I set the font
size and the rowHeight,
htfFont = new Font("Courier", Font.PLAIN, 15);
this.setFont(htfFont);

I don't know what subject line i should use for my post. But anyways,
this is my problem.
When a button (JButton) is pressed, it's stays pressed till the
actionPerformed() method is completed for that button. So what I did

in  a swing application i'm developing, i need to give a feature that,
certain button click event should be fired when a predefined key is
pressed. i can't use mnemonics because it need a "alt+key" combination
rather than a single key presses. please advice..

Thanks,
I'm using a JTable (with headers) and I press a button and the cells are filled
with data from a source I specify.
I'd like the operator to be able to move the columns while data is being filled,

Hey everyone,
I have been having some trouble trying to figure out how to give the
user data retreived from a MySQL database in the form of a
ResultSetTableModel inside a JTable. Once the user sees the data, I

I have extended a DefaultTreeCellRenderer class so that I can have
JComboBoxes and editable fields in my JTree's nodes. My problem is that
I'd like to dynamically update the tooltips for each tree node to
display different information and I'm not sure how this is done.

I have a tabbed pane with three tabs (only two are shown below).
All content is different except that two tabs share a status message box.
Sharing means that I want to display the same content in both tabs at that
position.

the situation:
a JPanel containing a JSplitPane with two JScrollPanes; one of the
JScrollPanes has a JTree, the other one a JTable in it. Each, JTree and
JTable have their own MouseListener which pops up with a certain popup menu

How can I close a window using a JButton?

How can I close a window using a JButton?

Anyone happen to see what I might be doing wrong. I'm trying to add
items to my
JComboBox on the fly as nodes are added to the tree. It's like this ...
1. User adds tree nodes to a tree.