I was just wondering what is the difference between these two methods
paint(Graphics g) and paintComponent(Graphics G) ?
-- Thanks all in advance, meaning now !

I am trying to create Quicken Like rows. But I am not sure how to do
that. To describe my problem better I am trying to the following.
In a normal JTable I would have row and column displayed in this
manner.

I need to use Graphics2D to draw a figure with lines representing
constraints.  Imagine a curve, with some hatching along one side.  (bad
ascii art follows)
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Im using Eclipse and when i try to load an .pgm file and draw it on to
a panel it works, but once i try running it through a terminal it the
.pgm file is not drawn ? What does this mean and how would i solve it ?
Here is the code to load and draw an image

I have a JTable with some custom editors. I set the
"terminateEditOnFocusLost" property to have editors removed properly
when the user "leaves" the table. The problem arises when the user is
editing a cell of the table and then clicks on another cell to edit

I am using affinetransform to rotate some text to paint on my
subclassed jpanel.    this looks fine until another window gets focus
and you move something over my window-- at that point the rotated text
(and only the rotated text) loses it's position, and goes to some off

i want to make a game.There is an image and the user must answer some
questions. Every time he answers correctly, a part of the image is
unveiled. If he answers all the questions correctly, he will be able to
see the whole image.How is it possible to uveil some parts of an image?

I have created a custom tablecellrenderer of type jlabel.  Before that
I left it to the default.
However now that I have a custom tablecellrenderer, the cell no longer
gets highlighted when the user selects the row!

 I am trying to add multilines to JOptionPane.showMessageDialog. But
JOptionPane is not rendering the lines as I want. It is ignoring the
new line character ("\n"). How can i add the multilines to JOptionPane.
If that is not possible can i fix the width of JOptionPane so that it

Has anyone seen or have some example code of creating a menu when a user
right clicks on a tab in a tabbed pane similair to what Mozilla Firefox
does? any ideas on how best to do this?
Cheers,

JForm is a Swing component framework that supports databinding and
validation.
JForm was first released in september 2003 as opensource project on
dev.java.net.

Hi all, is there a simple way to give a single String to the append method
of a JTextArea and have it come up in a different colour or even a different
font. So far the only way i can make it stand out is to put it all in CAPS
which doesnt look great. Its just a string every now and ...

a swing application i'm developing need support for english and
spanish. there are about 80 screens. i have created the resource
bundles for both languages and wrote code for screen components to load
strings based on the current locale.

I was just wondering i want to be able to get a color rgb value of a
pixel at x,y then create another Color object (or int) that is the
opposite it, then paint a circle with the opposite color. Here is the
code i have so far

Just was wandering if anyone has ever seen or created code for a JTree
where you can drag and drop nodes into other locations on the tree or
where you can drag other objects (text, JLabels...) onto the tree...
Cheers,