I'm looking for a way to initially set my divider location of my
JSplitPane all the way to the bottom (vertical split), as if it were
pulled all the way down and only shows the top component.
I know there's the setDividerLocation() that requires the size of the

If i have a JDialog that has a JPanle with numerous items (JTextFields,
JCheckBoxes and so on)... and i want to persist the state of this panel,
what is the recommended way?
I am thinkig i need to serialize the JPanel, save it in a file, and then

I'm serializing my JTree expansion state in xml. When my app starts up
and rebuilds the tree, I want to expand any nodes that were visible when
the app last closed. Here is a snippet of code that is supposed to do this:
         DefaultMutableTreeNode childTreeNode = new

I am attempting to familiarising myself with swing and have encountered
a strange problem.
The problem is that when I attemp to instantiate an Imageicon with a
relative filename. it fails.

I'm trying to cast a LinkedList<EdgePoint> to Iterable<DiagramElement>.
Just casting by (Iterable<DiagramElement>)list results in an error.
However I think it should be possible as:
- LinkedList implements Iterable

Hi group,
I have a JCheckbox, on which I set an certain Icon. This Icon has a
specific size, and is painted in the middle of the object, as such;
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I have a singleton dialog, but i need to open it from different
parents. I looked in the api, and couldn't find any setOwner or
setParent method.
is this possible?

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no QTJava in
java.lib
rary.path
       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)

 I'm trying to create a JTree where each node consists of a checkbox plus
a label. The idea is that the user can click on the checkbox to select
specific nodes.
After the user has selected nodes the code will then look at those nodes

just added a class to a new project which access a configuration file. In
debugging the class it keeps saying the file is not present. I have it
located at the root of my package along with most of my .class files and in
the src directory.

I am using the SteppedComboBox that i got from here:
http://www.codeguru.com/java/articles/163.shtml
and when i compile it using JDK 5.0 with -Xlint:deprecation i get the
deprecation warning about the SteppedComboBoxUI.show() method being

I try to use specific symbols which I preferably would like to take from
a TrueType font. So with the wealth of the internet, I took a look at
fontforge and simply speaking: I am not able to produce a TrueType font
which gives me more than little gray dots in Java. The font can ...