I have added a scrollpane to my jtextArea. Then I have implemented an
UpdateListener interface to handle events fired from my Model class ( I
am using the MVC). The problem I am facing is:
I add the scrollpane to the jtextarea and then I add the scrollpane to

What method is there to set how fast the scrollpane scrolls whenever I
choose the actual arrows on the ends of the scrollbars?  Mine scroll
really slow (few pixels at a time) and another application that I've
seen scrolls a lot faster (and fast enough to be considered normal ...

Does anybody know how to make animated gifs work in cell renderer?
I'm trying to use JLabel as base component with animated gif as image.
It works perfectly anywere except JTable...

I'm writing a program in Java, in which I want to use more than one
window.
Can anyone tell me how I can open a new JPanel (or perhaps I'd better
choose "extends JFrame"?) by clicking a JButton in the main program?

I'm using jTextFields in JTable.I have custom editor ,and everything
works fine while i'm adding and removing rows .Only the problem is that
when i add several rows ,fill them up ,and then remove them ,the last
edited jTextField stays on the panel with his value ,until i resize ...

I'm just trying to have a JSpinner, and have its value printed out
whenever the JButton is pressed.
Code at
http://mysite.verizon.net/gricksigger/view_code.txt

I have a bunch of buttons/textfields that are dynamically generated by
parsing data and they are all placed into a JPanel which uses
gridbaglayout. I then put the panel into a scrollpane.  If enough
buttons/textfields get created they end up becoming miniscule on the

In Swing, most of my comboxes are used with a JLabel ( on the left-hand
side or above) to tell the users what the combo is about.
That's a pretty basic use case...
I did not find a component merging the two, to make my code less

I would like to create a custom Swing component that functions exactly the
same as a JSplitPane but that draws no lines for the divider bar, instead it
only leaves space between the panes.  How would I go about this?  I guess it
involves inheriting JSplitPane and then doing ...

I want to know user home directory when i run through java applet. I
could not success through System.getProperty("user.home") as it gave me
security exception. Then i tried the following way which simply exec
the commands "echo %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%" for windows and for linux

Hi, I want to have 4 buttons and the buttons should always have the
minimum size that I specify. And if the text of the buttons changes, I
want them to expand automatically. Here is the code that I wrote, but
it seems to have some problem. If I take out the button's preferred

Running on Windows XP; tested under Java 1.4 and Java 1.5:
I'm using sockets to check to se if my application is already running
when I start. If so, I send a message to the running version, telling
it which file to open. In some situations, there may be no new file to

I am looking for a method to set the color of a pressed togglebutton.
Setbackground only works für not pressed JToggleButtons.
Gunther
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If you happen to be interested, I've just published a blog introducing
the major enhancements made to Swing Drag and Drop for Mustang. You can
find it here:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/shan_man/archive/2006/01/first_class_dra.html

I am having a problem displaying images on an applet, either in a
jlabel or in a jbutton. Every time I run the applet I get an error
message saying "applet not initialized". This is what I am currently
doing to insert a new image in a a JLabel