I'm using Netbeans 5.0 beta for an IDE, with swing components. The
situation is something like this:
The program is a board game - the user chooses a building from a panel,
and then is supposed to get a message to choose what resource to pay

Consider this SSCCE.  If you take out the comment on the setFont
statement, it stop working -- displaying a blank screen in W2K/JDK 1.0
Why. It fails even when I set it to the default Dialog, 12 , BOLD.
// sample use of jList

I need to install an Action with a defined accelerator key without
using a corresponding JMenuItem. I've got a JButton to correspond with
the accelerator key, but no Menu item.
I've been looking at the code for JMenuItem and I found the code in

I'm coding with SWT and I came across a problem with layouts. I have a
shell, which has a sashForm, which has two sashForms. Another one of these
has yet another sashForm within it. Now, this third sashForm has a
Composite(GridLayout), which consists of several Composites. These

The API documentation for JSeparator says that, besides using it in menus, it
can be used "elsewhere in a GUI wherever a visual divider is useful."  I have
never been able to use it (show a visible divider) except in a menu.  Anyone
know the "secret of the separator"?

In SWT, can you set a RowLayout or GridLayout to a Composite? I seem to
have some problems with that
-Mikko
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I have implemented Drag and Drop from a JTree by setting
       tree.setDragEnabled( true );
       tree.setTransferHandler( new NodeTransferSource() );
where NodeTransferSource is a subclass of TransferHandler.

After fruitlessly searching for a nice open source drop down button that
worked well under a variety of look and feels, I ended up writing one.  The
code is LGPL for those that are interested - download from the link below.
I included a write up of some of the design issues.  If ...

I used JToolBar to create a toolbar and added it to the frame. When I
drag it with mouse, a gray box appears instead of the buttons, while
the mouse is still pressed. This looks awkward. How can I avoid it? I
dont want to remove the floating property. Also is there a way I can

I was just wondering, if i want to know if the user selected a
particular tab on a JTabbedPane how will i do this ? So I can listen to
see if the user changed the tab by the following code
public class MyFrame extends JFrame

We want to include our online help file (chm format) in our jar file.
This is easy enough. The problem is I can't figure out how to launch
the help file when I need to.
I have to be able to execute an OS command to view the help.

Hi every1, I'm new to java and trying to learn it by doing it ...
The problem I'm having is that I'm trying to display an image (which
can only be displayed inside a label ... plz. correct me if I'm wrong).
The label's text is displaying but not the picture.

Does anyone have an example of using ColorSpace to create a color by
HLS?
Both of these commands throw a "Unknown color space" exception.
ColorSpace cSpace = new ColorSpace.getInstance(ColorSpace.TYPE_HLS);

What's the best solution for this?
I have a bunch of components each in a tab of a JTabbedPane, it is desirable
for each pane to have its own 'Submit' button - yes an alternative is to
have the button outside the tabbed pane and let it do the right thing

setMaximumSize() is not recognized by FlowLayout. However, I don't want to
setSize(...) anything but only to pack() my JFrame.
Do I have to implement my own LayoutManager or use an other one for this
trivial task? Is there a general solution to the problem that one only wants