I'm trying to let a user choose a linestyle (that is several predefined
dash patterns) by selecting one out of a combobox. I try to display a
preview line in each item of the combo.
The problem here is that only the selected element is painted and

In my graphic layout, i'd like to set the dimensions of the
string-based components.
the thing is that in order to preserve the layout, I'd like to set the
component's size to its maximum

I have make a class that extend JFrame. I have some textlabel, buttons,
etc.
But when I enlarge the window then buttons don`t move together.
How can I do?

I wonder if there's a way to change the "sensitivity" of the mouseDragged()
event. I mean, is there a chance to set the amount of pixels the user has to
drag the mouse before the event is fired?
cu

Cell renderer and font problem is solved by calling
JComboBox#setFont() method from within the
renderer mothod. Thanks again all the people who
gave the hint.

i'm developing a swing application where access to windows is to be
prevented.the application runs in full screen mode.when the app is
runnig, ctrl+alt+del should not let the user see the shutdown dialog
box. please advice about how that can be done

I using a JTextPane to display HTMLDocument.
I use setdocument followed by settext to switch between multiple html
documents. After the documents are displayed once, the style does not seem
to be applied at all when I switch to an htmldocument again. (which

Below is an SSCCE for the problem. The renderer renders
item text in the drop down list in italic font. But it doesn't render
the top item of the box in italic. What could be the solution. T.I.A.
---------------

I can't use isVisible and isRootVisible to determine when a JTree is
displayed. Is there an event trigger when a JTree is done displaying?
Thanks

Hi to all,
i describe a drawArrow method below, which takes 5 parameters : a graphics
object g and the coordinates of 2 points.
What i want to achieve is to draw a dotted line

I have a simple program where a JTextPane displays a number of HTML files
in a directory. Each of these HTML files has a style sheet linked to it
through the <LINK tag.
I read in all the HTML files  into a list of documents and display them

I have built a JPanel with lots of other small JPanels in it ("Thumbs"). Now
I would like to have all mouseDragged() events on the thumbs to be treated
as if they happenend on the JPanel they reside in.
I tried adding a MouseInputAdapter() to each of my thumbs but appearently I

I need to trigger a Button press when the operator has entered data in a
JTextField and presses the Enter key on the keyboard.
I set up an KeyListener for my JTextField for capturing the "Enter" key but
what do I call to trigger a button press?

I have an AWT problem. I'd like to add some Buttons to a Panel (with a
GridLayout of
dynamic dimension). Practically when I click on button1 it should
happens this:

I've tried every fire method on a JTreeTable after calling
setHeaderValue to reorder columns but it refuses to reorder the
columns.
Here is some sample code: