does anyone know how i can get keyboard events for a JPanel ?
thx

Hello again.
In my GUI, i am using checkboxes to represent attributes of objects.
In comboboxes, i have a list of name attributes of objects.
How do i go about setting checkboxes to true depending on what name

What are the best books for putting on your bookshelf to make you look
fancy/official?
-Shelly

I was curious if someone could post an example for me?  I am in need of
a good GUI tool which enables me to show some web service call data in
a very easy to read presentable way.  The layout I have in mind would
be something like:

please  help me for this issue.
i have  main application as JFrame,in one  frame i am  calling  Dialog
that is lookup window
.then dialog showing properly , then user switch to another frame  then

I'd like to add some small functionality do default
TabbedPaneUI component. It is now like this:
public class HBasicTabbedPaneUI extends BasicTabbedPaneUI {
   public static ComponentUI createUI(JComponent c) {

I'm looking for a sollution to change the isPopupTrigger for a
MouseEvent from the right mouse button to the left mousebutton (in
Windows). Until now I have solved this problem by writing a
MouseListener for handling the MouseEvent, but reading al the API I've

I am working on a project which requires me to develop GUI in Java for
a module that is implemented using MySql database as backend and Perl
DBI as the front end. This module also  provides webservices using
SOAP.

I've asked this before, but I'll try rephrasing the question and
posting the code I have so far.
I want to sort the files shown in JFileChooser with a custom
comparator. I understand these files are retrived by the JFileChooser's

I've a JXTreeTable (from jdnc) with a custom model and a custom
renderer.
The problem is when I click on "+" to expand a node or on "-" to
collapse it, if the node is selected, it doesn't expand not collapse!!

 I've done LOTS of web searching, and have found close solutions, but
none of them complete or what I want; so here goes...
short:
I have a custom component for entering IP Addresses.  It's essentially

My application uses this method to pop up a dialog to have the User
select Yes or No.  Both the Yes and No are hotkeyed by default to use
Alt-y or Alt-n.  This was not the case when the app was running in JDK
1.3.

I'm working on an application and I would like to use the decorated look
and feel on my frames and dialogs.  But I've run into a snag.  When you
create a JFrame without the default L&F decoration, it is constrained in
size by the screen dimensions (although is extends below the ...

I draw on an instance of BufferedImage and blit it to the screen in the
paintComponent() method. Now I am not sure how to react on a resize of the
output window. I can think of 3 strategies:
1. start with a BufferedImage the size of the whole screen and only use the

   any idea how to calculate the time difference between 2 'strings'
               so for '22:00:00' and '01:00:00'
   I'd like the result to be 180 minutes....
TIA