I have a JLayeredPane that includes other UI components on the
DEFAULT_LAYER. When the user selects one of these components. I add a
translucent JPanel to the MODAL_LAYER. The JPanel captures all mouse
events to the user can not interact with the underlying components.

Is there anyway to create a JTree with objects where only a certain
field from the object is displayed for the node.
I.e.
public someObject {

I'm having trouble working this out.  I want to have a right-click action
on a JList such that it selects whichever list entry I've right-clicked,
then produces a popup menu specific to that item.  I've tried adding a
context menu to the cell renderer; I'm glad to say that didn't ...

I want to display a JTree on the ToolTip of my component,use maybe
click the jtree.What should I do?

I've noticed that when I minimize then restore my Java applications, I see
the window come up, the background is cleared then the contents painted.
On a fast machine it's barely noticeable, but my companies QA dept has
submitted a bug over it.

Yup, that pretty much summarizes it. I wrote my app with Swing widgets as
GUI under NetBeanos 4.1. It runs fine within the IDE but not as standalone.
One of the errors is an exception complaining about AbsoluteLayout.
Unfortunately this is not a standard thing, so I placed the ...

I'm new to Java. My background is in PowerBuilder. I'm looking for a GUI
Builder that will allow for fast development of screens. The current version
of Java in use here is 4.0.
The wish list:

I have the following strange problem:
I have an array of JLabels that I display on my JPanel with a
GridBagLayout. However, some of the JLabel's text spills over the
JLabel, in terms of height. What I mean is the height of the text

I have a button called "Add Car". What code can I write that will create a
Vehicle when the user clicks on this button.

I'm currently working with a JTree and I'm having a problem in that it
does not paint my changes I make to the TreeModel.
I create the tree like this:
    root = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(editor.getDiagram());

Ok, so Eclipse is free, I get it - you get what you pay for.  I love
Eclipse but I am getting a little frustrated with Visual Editor - all
too often with little changes my 'Visual' turns from a laid out page
into a useless list of icons...ugh...

 The document located at
http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/2005/desktop/TS-1861.pdf
 contains the statement
     Nested Panels = EVIL

I have not really worked with JTextPane but I am trying now. I am able
to create a JTextPane that does not wrap lines. I am also able to add
color attributes to text then inserting it into a document that is
displayed in a JTextPane. The problem I am having is to combine both

Im trying to lelarn Java game programming. Can anyone tell me where I
can find sample source code for games like tetris and puyo.
Thanks,
Rashmi

I wrote some app in which I set the look & feel to one that I downloaded
from the net (jgoodies.com). In my development setup I placed the L&F jar
file in my JRE's lib/ext directory, I also have it in a "third party
library" directory. In my project I made a reference to that ...