Hello all, I am confused as to how to do this?
I would like the change to veto a setSelected
when the event happens but not sure how to go about this.
If I am in the actionPerformed of a JCheckBox, I guess

While perusing a newsgroup I found a simple subclass of JTabbedPane that
includes an X icon for deleting tabs.  However, when I tried it I
periodically get ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exceptions on the event thread when
deleting tabs - not sure why.  Stack trace and code below.

I need to make a jtable with these requirements:
- The first two columns fixed
- It should sort the rows by clicking on the headers name
By clicking on the column header both columns need to be sorted

I am creating a JMenu that put its items in 2 columns, with the first
column holding JMenuItems and the second menu holding submenus
(JMenus). It looks somewhat like this:
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I've been referencing string tables for years and have seen people write
both stringtable and string table.
Neither spelling is listed in dictionary.com or webster's site.
Which do you think is write? ('you' being anyone who wants to respond).

I am about to start writing a section of an application which will take
data from an XML file and draw it in a JPanel as lines/polygons. I am
also going to have a few bits of text around the main drawing. Although
I don't need any 'zooming' capabilities I do want it so that if the

I'm try to make a list with different background colors.
Here is what I do
JLabel label1 = new JLabel("Red Background");
JLabel label2 = new JLabel("Blue Background");

I'm currently trying to use a True Type Font in Java. I installed the
font under windows and it works fine in e.g. Word, but when I try to
use it in Java all I can see are "rectangles". I'm not sure if the
problem lies in the font itself or if it is a problem of Java. The

I'm new to java ,, my question is that , how can i design a frame by
putting text entry and label controls in a java file (not jsp).
I want to make these controls and put data which is in variables.
Plz advise some solution.

Hi Friends,
         I am using JPanel in loginscreen of one of my projects. I am
using drawImage() and drawing an image on the panel but, the image is
drawn after sometime . Single textbox is displayed at two places and

What all is needed to be configured in order to load a gif from within
my own jar file and use it within my GUI?  I've set a CLASSPATH variable
in my Command window (WinXP) and that doesn't work.  I've included the
.classpath file from the Eclipse workspace directory in my jar ...

I've been playing around with JTextPane and JEditorPane and found a few
odd things.  At least under Windows and Java 1.5, neither JTextPane or
JEditorPane support copying & pasting of formatted text very well.  The
former doesn't support it at all (even inside the control), and the

My applications have GUI forms with controls dynamically generated and
placed on the panels.  The controls are defined in a database - JType,
size, name, default etc.
They are also dynamically bound to a model using DocumentListeners et

I have developed an application in JApplet. But i want Give that
application to my client with Non-Resizable JApplet. For that i added
my JApplet to non-resizable JFrame. But i am unable to view the
components(JButton, JLAble) Which are already on my JApplet. For that i

I want to make a custom list control that contains line items that have
this format:
checkbox followed by a string followed by a button.  I'm thinking of
using a GridBoxLayout.  Does this sound like the correct path to go down?