Has anyone used something like this?
I've read a bit on the topic and found that maybe the JGoodies binding and
SwingLabs databindings frameworks might do the trick, but I'd like to hear
from anyone who might have had the same dilema before I did...

I have put in a JScrollPane a JPanel. In that JPanel I put some
different components, like JLabels, JCheckBoxes, other JPanels.....(it
is some kind of custom menu..)
Problem is this. I want dynamically set focus on elements in

I've been trying to figure out the standard for colon use.
The guidelines appear to be that if you have a label for a control, you are
to put a colon after that label, but I see all sorts of uses going both
ways (in MS windows at least).

I have a JTextArea inside a JScrollPane and I have set the Vertical
scroll bars on the JScrollPane to appear when needed. The JTextArea
currently holds 4 lines and when that number is exceeded the scrolls on
the JScrollPane show up fine but I see the last line of the text area,

My application uses a JTree. I can select any node or leaf in the tree
by left clicking on it but selections can't be made using right clicks.
When a right click is made I want that node or leaf to be selected and
then to bring up a popup menu giving the user a choice to add or ...

I'm having problems using the JScrollPane when there is a component
inside the scroll pane that has a MouseWheelListener added to it.  When
the MouseWheelEvent occurs over this component it receives the event
but the JScrollPane no longer scrolls.

say under windows XP, I want to scan some specific window and take
snapshot
and match it with some pattern images (e.g. BMP pictures representing
number 0-9),

Hey guys, I am trying to may an IntegerJComboBox with an Editable field
as well, which only allows integer values to be entered with some
length and value limits also included.
I started with something like the following, but still don't think I

   In the following code fragment, the progress bar is incremented once
only. The io operation takes about 5 seconds.
   How do I get the progressbar to keep 'progressing', while the io
operation continues in the background..

Im working with a jtree and I have added the jpopupmenu to the jtree
object.
When I right click a node the menu comes up appropriately, it even
accepts clicks and performs the appropriate action.  The only thing

This is a question for the experts (obviously).
I'm working on a small project to develop a messenger-type application.
I'm planning on using the JTree object to represent my contact list.
It seems like a very nice all-in-one expandable (in the future) object.

Is there a free API that interacts with OpenGL for extreme GUI functionality
or even gaming animation ?
Thank you in advance,
Benoit

I've been tackling this problem for some time and am not having much
luck.  I'm hoping someone has some experience with this and can shed
some light.
I have build a shape drawing program where edge lengths correspond to

I have got a JTable and its cells are JPanel's (to make Java2D inside)
displaying numbers.
The problem is that I want the cells to be editable, so when you click on
the cell, you could write some number, and the new one be redisplayed.

I have created an extended JTextField class that also contains an
extends PlainDocument class as shown on sun's web site under JTextField
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/swing/JTextField.html
However Im having a bit of a problem with setting the text of the