Hi to all,
i ' d like to ask how to achieve incremental painting in java.swing.
In java.awt one had to overrid the update method, so as not clear the
background.

In NS 7.1 on a Mac OSX I cannot seem to access an applet. Trying:
document.getElementById("theApplet");
freezes the NS 7.1 browser on Mac. Other workarounds such as the
following fail as well.

I recently had a problem where my custom JButtons would draw over my menus
when updating their graphics (on a rollover action).
I found a solution in the newsgroups, but I fear I'm going to have further
troubles unless I can understand the Heavyweight/Lightweight component

how do i to open an swt wizard or even a dialog from swing???
my whole app freezes up when i get to dialog.open()
public class myFram extends JFrame {
.....

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Right now, the selected cell in my JTable is indicated with a little box.
And, its entire row is colored blue....
I find that this draws too much attention to the row, and not enough
attention to the individual selected cell.

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I have a frame with a JTabbedPane added to it,  and each tab i have
added is a JPanel.  Now, I have not set any background color for the
JTabbedPane but all the JPanels added as tabs refuse to display their
background colors,  they only display the default Light Gray no matter

I am tring to set multi-line tooltip for some of the components we use
including JTextField, JCombobox, JButton, etc
e.g. // JComboBoxMultiToolTip
class JComboBoxMultiToolTip extends javax.swing.JComboBox {

I guess the title says it all...
I have a JTable with 2 column (and a lot of rows), but some of the rows
should span 2 columns. Can anyone help me to realise that? Any tips or
something you have made yourself?

I was just wondering if there was a way to paint in a MouseDown
handler.  In class we only learned about the paint method,  but is
there a way to draw a new shape on each click without calling a
repaint?   if someone could point me to a link that explains this or

When I use a JSlider as a renderer and editor in a JTable, the first time I
click in a region to the left of the slider's thumb, it moves to the right,
instead of moving to the left towards the mouse pointer!  After that
everthing behaves normally.  Any ideas why I might be ...

I am designing a swing application and I have a stage where I want the
user to enter information in a stepwise approach - say like a wizard.
[So is the design]
I have an abstract class (AbstractUIFrame) that defines a number of

I want to replace a JButton mybut1 which is placed on a JPanel by two other JButtons mybut2 and mybut3.
The replacement should oocur during the run of the application (e.g. if Button1 is visible and
I click on it).
How do I do this?

I have a JTable with 17 columns. The last 15 columns contain airport
codes (this is used
for entering a flight schedule). The application uses a list of 5000
airport codes.